Medical and Natural Sciences

• Chen Xihe 陳西河. Zhong yi ming ci ci dian 中醫名詞辭典. Taibei: Wu zhou chu ban she, 1974.
• Du Yaquan 杜亞泉 et al., compilers. Zhi wu xue da ci dian 植物學大辭典. Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1938.
• Ou Ming 歐明. Han ying Zhong yi ci dian 漢英中醫辭典. Hong Kong: San lian shu ju, 1988.
• Read, Bernard E. Chinese Materia Medica. Beijing: Peking Natural History Bulletin, 1931-1941.
• —- and C. Pak. Minerals and Stones. Beijing: Peking Natural History Bulletin, 1936.
• —-. Chinese Medicinal Plants. Beijing: Peking Natural History Bulletin, 1936.
• Tessenow, Hermann, and Paul U. Unschuld. A Dictionary of the Huang Di nei jing su wen. (Huang Di nei jing su wen Project.). Includes searchable CD-ROM. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008.
• Xie Guan 謝觀 . Zhongguo yi xue da ci dian 中國醫學大辭典. Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1927. Now out of date. The Zhong yi da ci dian below is a much better reference source.
• Yu Yunxiu 余云岫. Gu dai ji bing ming hou shu yi 古代疾病名候疏義. Beijing: Ren min chu ban she, 1953.
• Yuan Yixiang 原一祥, Han Ying shuang jie Zhong yi da ci dian 漢英雙解中醫大辭典 ("Chinese-English Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine"). Beijing: 人 民 衛 生 Press. An important recent arrival. Simplified characters. Arranged in stroke order, with pinyin and English indexes. Includes 8760 items chosen from TCM textbooks and explained in detail in both Chinese and English. By far the most comprehensive Chinese-English medical dictionary, aside from a couple of grossly incompetent ones published in the U.S. Definitions are generally aware of multiple meanings. This book reliably transmits the understanding of the present-day TCM practitioner. It is emphatically not, however, a historical dictionary, and cannot be used uncritically for reading premodern texts.
• Zhong yi da ci dian 中醫大辭典 (Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine), compiled by 中國中醫研究院廣州中醫學院 . Published by Ren min wei sheng 人民衛生 Press, 1995. Now the best reference book of its kind.