Concept of dualism and complementarity in Chinese philosophy, cosmology, traditional medicine, fengshui, and protoscience, opposing “yang“ (for solar, masculine, active, warm) with “yin“ (for lunar, feminine, passive, cool)

Yin yang wu xing : po̓ i, ch̓üan shih, chi huo / Xue-pe̓ng Yang.

MS Japanese 30

Yin-Yang and the nature of correlative thinking / A.C. Graham.

A flourishing Yin : gender in China's medical history, 960-1665 / Charlotte Furth.

Li Dong-yuan's treatise on the spleen & stomach : a translation of the Pi wei lun / by Yang Shou-zhong & Li Jian-yong.

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Yin yang wu xing : po̓ i, ch̓üan shih, chi huo / Xue-pe̓ng Yang.

MS Japanese 30

Yin-Yang and the nature of correlative thinking / A.C. Graham.

A flourishing Yin : gender in China's medical history, 960-1665 / Charlotte Furth.

Li Dong-yuan's treatise on the spleen & stomach : a translation of the Pi wei lun / by Yang Shou-zhong & Li Jian-yong.