香港葫蘆賣乜藥 Hong Kong Apothecary: A Visual History of Chinese Medicine Packaging
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榮獲2001年香港印刷冠軍獎
《香港葫蘆賣乜藥》是作者吳文正歷時四年對中藥包裝研究之成果。作者先後訪問了多家中藥生號及製藥廠,獲得不少原始資料。本書集合了設計及文化資料。採用超過八百幅有關中藥包裝設計圖片作佐證,記錄了當代中藥包裝的發展變化,並回顧一些中藥店鋪自十九世紀中葉以來的變遷。本書曾榮獲2001年香港印刷冠軍獎。
Recipient of the 2001 Hong Kong Print Award
Hong Kong Apothecary transports us to the world of Chinese medicine—a place of gou (plasters), daan (pellets), yun (pills), saan (powders), leung cha (herbals teas), yau (medicinal oils), zau (wine)—cures for every known ailment from indigestion to impotency.
Author Simon Go combed manufacturers, shops, and home medicine cabinets for four years. He interviewed numerous practitioners and manufacturers of herbal medicine and collected the most compelling examples. The result is a visual cabinet of curiousities, a graphical pharmacopoeia.
Richly illustrated with over 700 graphical design motifs, this book takes us through the evolution, diversity, and creativity of Chinese medicinal packaging. Many of these medicines are no longer produced, making Hong Kong Apothecary a memoir of a rapidly disappearing culture.