title: The puzzle of Wang Bing's life story.
abstract: Since Wang Bing made great contributions to the development of TCM, exploration on Wang Bing's life story is helpful to the analysis on the intention of his medical works. There are controversies on Wang's life story, some of which are still in debate. Through the elucidation of Wang's name, other names, sobriquet, dates of birth and death, official positons and scholarly lineage, this author holds that more relevant historical materials are needed so that the puzzle of his life story can be eventually revealed and uncovered.
authors.affiliation: Institute of TCM, Chinese Medical College, Taiwan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ren
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*