ABSTRACT
Chinese medicine has a richly illustrated history, but little work has been done to understand how its images can relate new stories to enhance and counter established discourses based on text alone. This chapter divides acupuncture illustrations into three distinct genres: general diagrams of acu-moxa points; diagrams of acu-moxa points of the fourteen channels; and sectional diagrams and diagrams showing acupoints categorised by type or by illness. In doing so, it discovers new and distinctive medical and anatomical cultures and identifies critical contemporary research issues.
