A Study of Chinese Alchemy
About this book
Some Chinese alchemists searched for gold; others hoped to lengthen life itself. Cinnabar, mercury, sacred mountains and recipes for immortality appear beside philosophical arguments about change and the nature of the body.
Cite this edition
Obed S. Johnson; foreword by E. T. Williams. A Study of Chinese Alchemy. 1974 Arno Press facsimile reprint of the Commercial Press, Shanghai, 1928 original. Johnson’s preface is dated Berkeley, November 1925; the separately signed foreword is by E. T. Williams. Arno Press. 1974. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/books/a-study-of-chinese-alchemy
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