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Gastbeitrag von Dr. Thies Staack (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg) During the past few years, I have been conducting a research project on the collecting and exchange of medical recipes in 19th and early 20th century China at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) in Hamburg. Since manuscripts, both bound recipe books and individual recipes on loose leaves, played an important role in this respect, the Unschuld collection of Chinese medical manuscripts is an invaluable source for my research. Among the close to 1,000 manuscripts from the Unschuld collection now housed at…