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INTERNET RESOURCE:
ChiMed: The History of Chinese Medicine
VIDEO RESOURCES:
Garripoli, Francesco Garri, dir., Qigong: Ancient Chinese Healing for the 21st Century. Kapaa, HI: Wuji Productions, 2000. Videocassette, 60 min. Previously aired on PBS.
Hinton, Carma, dir., “To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, Ancestors, and Medicine in a Chinese village” in One Village in China series. New York: New Day Films, 1986. Videocassette, 59 min. Previously aired on PBS.
Michie, Alistair, dir. “The Health Culture: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the 21st Century,” in China: The Dragon’s Ascent series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003. Videocassette, 58 min. A collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) and the Needham Research Institute (Cambridge, UK)
Moyers, Bill. “The Mystery of Chi” in Healing and the Mind series. New York : David Grubin Productions, 1993. Videocassette, 58 min. Previously aired on PBS. |
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