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" Neither donkey nor horse : "
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
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BL
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581583
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GBB479976b410802
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GBB482215b410802
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| Main Entry
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Lei, Xianglin
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Neither donkey nor horse : : medicine in the struggle over China's modernity /\ Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
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| Series Statement
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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x, 382 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9780226169880
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: 022616988X
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Sovereignty and the microscope: the containment of the Manchurian Plague, 1910-11 -- Connecting medicine with the state: from missionary medicine to public health, 1860-1928 -- Imagining the relationship between Chinese medicine and Western medicine, 1890-1928 -- The Chinese medical revolution and the national medicine movement -- Visualizing health care in 1930s Shanghai -- Science as a verb: scientizing Chinese medicine and the rise of mongrel medicine -- The germ theory and the prehistory of "pattern differentiation and treatment determination" -- Research design as political strategy: the birth of the new antimalaria drug Changshan -- State medicine for rural China, 1929-1949 -- Conclusion: thinking with modern Chinese medicine
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"Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative of the political history of modern China, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei argues that China's medical history had a life of its own, one that at times directly influenced the ideological struggle over the meaning of China's modernity and the Chinese state. Far from being a remnant of China's premodern past, Chinese medicine in the twentieth century coevolved with Western medicine and the Nationalist state, undergoing a profound transformation--institutionally, epistemologically, and materially--that resulted in the creation of a modern Chinese medicine. This new medicine was derided as 'neither donkey nor horse' because it necessarily betrayed both of the parental traditions and therefore was doomed to fail. Yet this hybrid medicine survived, through self-innovation and negotiation, thus challenging the conception of modernity that rejected the possibility of productive crossbreeding between the modern and the traditional. By exploring the production of modern Chinese medicine and China's modernity in tandem, Lei offers both a political history of medicine and a medical history of the Chinese state."--Provided by publisher
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Medicine-- China-- History-- 20th century
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Medicine, Chinese
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional-- history
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History of Medicine
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Social Change-- history
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China
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| Dewey Classification
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610.951
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R601.L45 2014
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2014 L-327
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WZ 70 JC6
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