Dr. Vivienne Lo Responds, re: Dunhuang manuscripts

[Guest guest]

Dear Esteemed Colleagues,

 

I wanted to share with you my exchange with the esteemed Dr. Vivienee Lo who

works at Oxford University and is a principal researcher at the Welcome Trust

Center. My inquiry to her was regarding Dunhaung manuscripts and her research

team's progress with their presentation. See her response below. She has also

asked me to post a flyer regarding her upcoming event in London. Some of you

know Volker Scheid who is also an associate of Dr. Lo's and will participate in

this event with numerous others. Vivienne Lo's work is described here.

http://asianmedcom.site.securepod.com/people/vivienne_lo/index.htm

 

Respectfully,

Emmanuel Segmen

_______________________________

Dear Emmanuel Segmen,

 

Thank you for your interest in my work. The Dunhuang volume will be out at the

end of the year, published by RoutledgeCurzon, but my monograph on the earliest

treatise on acupuncture and [Qi gong] type questions is at least 18 months off.

I am also writing a history of food and medicine in China, but that too will be

a couple of years. I have many articles and the best way to look at them is on

my website http://asianmedcom.site.securepod.com/ which is an offshoot of the

Wellcome Trust Centre site. I hope that practitioners will be interested in the

iconographic project which is coming together ove rthe next 18 months. We will

have 1,500 fully catalogued illustration from pre-modern Chinese medical books

online within a couple of years.

 

For the moment I will send the flyer for an IASTAM [ www.iastam.org ] journal I

am editing in another email. It should be published this year. Here I also

attach a draft of a related conference. Do please bounce it on to any e-lists.

 

Best wishes,

 

Vivienne Lo

 

 

Emmanuel Segmen (Asia Natural) [herbs]

15 June 2004 23:03

Dr. Vivienne Lo

From Emmanuel Segmen - Network

 

 

 

Hello Dr. Lo,

 

 

 

I wanted to introduce myself and ask you about " The Dunhuang manuscripts and

medicine " article many of my colleagues are currently passing around. I'm a

moderator at the Paradigm Press (Redwing Books) forum called

Network. I'm also friends with who is head of the faculty at the

Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego. I manage a business in San

Francisco that locates and buys herbs from remote sites throughout China. Z'ev

and I along with many other colleagues are excited by your work with the

Dunhaung manuscripts and hope to read your presentation of your translations.

We understand that you are working with numerous other colleagues such as

Catherine Despeux, Donald Harper, Elizabeth Hsü and numerous others. Please let

us know where we can read of your work. If your publications or manuscripts are

in English, I'm sure that Robert Felt (owner of Paradigm Press in New Mexico)

would be interested in the publication and/or distribution of your work.

 

 

 

With Respect and Gratitude,

 

 

 

Emmanuel Segmen

 

Merritt College (Oakland), Asia Natural Products (San Francisco)

 

510-524-7916, 415-522-1668

 

IASTAM Asian Medicine Tradition and Modernity

 

London Regional Conference

 

2nd December 2004

 

Room B202, 2nd Floor Bloomsbury Suite, Brunei Gallery building

 

10 Thornaugh Street, Great Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

 

 

This conference is being held to celebrate the new journal of the society of

IASTAM (The International Society for the study of Asian Medicine).

 

 

It will also coincide with the exhibition of Asian medical manuscripts from the

Wellcome Library: ASIA: MIND, BODY, SPIRIT at SOAS Brunei gallery [13 October -

12 December]. Members of the IASTAM board and other scholars from a range of

different backgrounds will give lectures on historical, anthropological,

sociological and iconograhic dimensions of Asian medicine as well as practice

reports from practitioners working in the field.

 

Ayurveda and Sexuality: Sex Therapy and the 'Paradox of Virility' in

 

Contemporary India.

 

Joe Alter: University of Pittsburgh

 

Problem Pregnancies in Early Ayurvedic Texts

Martha Selby: University of Texas

 

Representations of the Body in China

 

Catherine Despeux, INALCO

 

Wellcome's Online Chinese Medical Iconographic Collection

 

Penny Barrett, Wellcome Trust Centre

 

Plant Cultures

 

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

 

The Construction of Traditional

 

Kim Taylor, Shanghai Institute [to be funded]

 

The first TCM text books

 

Cinzia Scorzon

 

Plurality and Synthesis: in Contemporary China

 

Volker Scheid

 

The Dunhuang Medical manuscripts

 

Vivienne Lo

 

Evidence and Experience of

 

Hugh MacPherson, University of York

 

Ayurvedic medical Research

 

Narendra Bhatt

 

Roundtable Discussion

 

Traditional Medicine and Professionalisation in the UK

 

Dominik Wujastyk, Hugh MacPherson

 

Tour of the exhibition

 

Nigel Allan Curator of the Oriental Collection, Wellcome Library

 

Evening Reception In the Brunei Gallery

 

Launch of IASTAM journal

 

Launch of Lo and Cullen, Mediaeval

 

Launch of Kim Taylor in Early Communist China

 

Registration is £80, but free to those who have d to the journal (to

see www.iastam.org/journal or complete form on the back of your

letter) and £30 to existing members of IASTAM. Places are limited, so to avoid

disappointment, please apply as soon as possible.