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Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In)
Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei
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Description for Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 376 pages, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 758.
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, Scan Hsiang-lin Lei argues that China's medical history had a lite of its own, one that 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 ... Read more
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, Scan Hsiang-lin Lei argues that China's medical history had a lite of its own, one that 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226169880
SKU
V9780226169880
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About Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei
Sean Hsiang-Lin lei is associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; associate professor at the Institute of Science, Technology, and Society at National Yang-Ming University; and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He lives in Taipei, Taiwan.
Reviews for Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In)
"A major work by the leading scholar in the field of modern Chinese medical history. Lei's book will be of interest not only to historians of Republican China but also to those interested in the history of science more widely." (Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford)"