Chee Mao's Bestiary

Medicinal Animals and Modern China
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2135-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

Liz P. Y. Chee complicates understandings of Chinese medicine as timeless and unchanging by historicizing the expansion of animal-based medicines in the social and political environment of early Communist China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chee, Liz P. Y.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. "Abandon Chinese Medicine, Retain Chinese Drugs": Creating a State Pharmaceutical Sector 27
2. "To Learn from the Soviet Union": Russian Influence on Chinese Pharmaceuticals 53
3. The Great Leap Forward and the Rise of Medicinal Animal Farming 71
4. The Quest for Innovation: Folk Remedies and Animal Therapies 99
5. "Economic Animals": Deng's Reforms and the Rise of Bear Farming 139
Conclusion 161
Notes 173
Glossary 225
Bibliography 229
Index 265

Über Autor(innen)

Liz P. Y. Chee is Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute and Lecturer at Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore.