Chéng Ménxuě yígǎo 程門雪遺稿
Posthumous Drafts of Chéng Ménxuě by 程門雪 Chéng Ménxuě (1902–1972, modern)
About the work
A posthumous collection of gynecological writings, case-records, and clinical commentary by 程門雪 Chéng Ménxuě (1902–1972), one of the major Shanghai-school Shānghán physicians of the Republican and early-PRC period and the founding president of the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1956). Chéng was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Shanghai medical reform movement and one of the principal teachers of the modern PRC TCM-academy gynecological curriculum. The yígǎo (“posthumous drafts”) title indicates the work was compiled posthumously from Chéng’s manuscript materials.
Prefaces
The KR hxwd recension of KR3ei047_001.txt contains only the mandoku-view header (six lines) and no body content. The text is therefore not directly accessible in this KR3ei subdivision; the present entry is based on catalog metadata and standard Republican/PRC Chinese-medicine bibliographic literature.
Abstract
Chéng Ménxuě (1902–1972, see 程門雪) was a native of Wǔyuán 婺源 (Jiāngxī, then under Ānhuī administration) who trained in classical Chinese medicine in Shanghai under 汪蓮石 Wāng Liánshí. He combined a rigorous classical Shānghán practice with extensive engagement with the wēnbìng tradition and was widely regarded as one of the most learned physicians of his generation. His works include the Shānghán biànyào jiānjì 傷寒辨要箋記 (KR3ef058), the 金匱篇言疏義 Jīnguì piānyán shūyì, and numerous case-records and clinical essays. The Chéng Ménxuě yígǎo is among the posthumous collections of his clinical writings.
Composition: Chéng’s principal Shanghai medical-teaching career spans the 1930s through his death in 1972; the gynecological writings would have been composed during this period. notBefore 1930 / notAfter 1972 brackets the working range.
The work is the only 20th-century text in the KR3ei sub-division alongside the 1931 KR3ei019 Zhúquánshēng nǚkē jíyào and the 1915–1933 KR3ei041 Shěnshì nǚkē jíyào jiānshū, reflecting the inclusion of modern PRC TCM curriculum-text material alongside the older imperial corpus.
Translations and research
- Volker Scheid, Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626–2006. Seattle: Eastland Press, 2007 — for Chéng Ménxuě’s role in the Shanghai medical reform movement and the early-PRC institutional foundation of TCM.
- Bridie Andrews, The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2014.
- No standalone English translation located.
Links
- No verified Wikipedia or Wikidata entry located for the yígǎo specifically.
- 程門雪遺稿 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB