Healing Wisdom of the South: Medical Heritage in the Wanli Zhangzhou Chronicles and Digital Humanities Tracing
I. The Prescription Written in 1381 Here’s a number: 1381. That year, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree. At the busiest intersection of Zhangzhou city, a “Huimin Pharmacy” — a public pharmacy — opened its doors. It treated epidemics. It gave out free medicine. It saved poor people’s lives. Now open a map of modern Zhangzhou. That exact spot? Still a hospital. Four hundred years later, the coordinates haven’t moved. ...