This book is a systematic summing-up of the achievements of Chinese massotherapy and a comprehensive and detailed research into its academic origin and development, basic theories, fundamental knowledge, basic manipulations, physical exercises, and its concrete application in clinical practice and health maintenance. It includes the main massotherapic works and a wealth of other documents of the various periods in China, brings together the fruits of modern massotherapic research from home and abroad in the past five decades, summarizes the clinical experience of massotherapists of various periods, and brings to light hundreds of almost-lost methods of treatment. It is no exaggeration to say that this book is an omni-directional, high-level and wide-ranging crystallization of the contents and characteristics of Chinese massotherapy. With more than 400 illustrations. - from Amzon