Tear+open

  • 131Shi Tiesheng — b. 1951, Beijing Writer Shi Tiesheng was sent to Guanjia village near Yan’an as an ‘educated youth’ (zhiqing) in 1969, returning home in 1972 suffering from an illness that left him with a permanent disability and prevented him from working. Shi… …

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  • 132spagyric — Relating to the paracelsian or alchemical system of medicine, which stressed the treatment of disease by various types of chemical substances. [G. spao, to tear open, + ageiro, to collect] …

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