1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts:
- Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions
- Sickness and Healing
- Food and Sex
- Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices
- The World of Sinographic Medicine
- Wider Diasporas
- Negotiating Modernity
This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
Part 1: Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions
1. Yin, Yang and Five Agents (Wuxing) in the Basic Questions and Early Han (202 BCE–220 CE) Medical Manuscripts
Chen Yun-ju
2. Qi 氣: a Means for Cohering Natural Knowledge
Michael Stanley-Baker
3. Re-envisioning Chinese Medicine: the view from archaeology
Vivienne Lo and Gu Man
4. The Importance of Numerology, Part I: state ritual and medicine
Deborah Woolf
5. The Importance of Numerology, Part II: medicine: an overview of the application of numbers in Huangdi neijing
Deborah Woolf
6. Therapeutic Exercise in the Medical Practice of Sui China (581–618 CE)
Dolly Yang
7. The Canonicity of the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic: Han through Song
Stephen Boyanton
8. Pre-standardised Pharmacology: Han through Song
Asaf Goldschmidt
9. Chace, C. ‘Developments in Chinese Medicine from the Song through the Qing’
Charles "Chip" Chace
Part 2: Sickness and Healing
10. Ancient Pulse Taking, Complexion and the Rise of Tongue Diagnosis in Modern China
Oli Loi-Koe
11. Case Records Yi'an
Nancy Holroyde-Downing
12. Acupuncture Illustrations
Huang Longxiang and Wang Fang
13. Anatomy and Surgery
Li Jianmin
14. History of Disease: pre-Han to Qing
Lu Di
15. Pre-modern Madness
Chen Hsiu-fen
16. Late Imperial Epidemiology, Part 1: from retrospective diagnosis to epidemics as diagnostic lens for other ends, 1870s to 1970s
Marta Hanson
17. Late Imperial Epidemiology, Part 2: new material and conceptual methods, 1980s to 2010s
Marta Hanson
18. Folk Medicine of the Qing and Republican Periods: a review of therapies in Unschuld's Berlin Manuscripts
Nalini Kirk
Part 3: Food and Sex
19. What not to Eat – How Not to Treat: medical prohibitions
Vivienne Lo and Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira
20. Chinese Traditional Medicine and Diet
Vivienne Lo
21. Food and Dietary Medicine in Chinese Herbal Literature and Beyond
Paul D. Buell
22. The Sexual Body Techniques of Early and Medieval China: Underlying Emic Theories and Basic Methods of a Non-Reproductive Sexual Scenario for Non-Same-Sex Partners
Rodo Pfister
23. Sexing the Chinese Medical body: pre-modern Chinese medicine through the lens of gender
Yishan Wang
24. Gynaecology and Obstetrics from the Tang to the early 21st century
Yi-Li Wu
25. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 1: from xing to sexual cultivation
Leon Antonio Rocha
26. The Question of Sex and Modernity in China, Part 2: from new ageism to sexual happiness
Leon Antonio Rocha
Part 4: Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices
27. Daoism and Chinese Medicine
Michael Stanley-Baker
28. Buddhist Medicine: overview of concepts, practices, texts and translations
Pierce Salguero
29. Time in Chinese Alchemy
Fabrizio Pregadio
30. Daoist Sexual Practices for Health and Immortality for Women
Elena Valussi
31. Junqueira, L.F.B. Numinous Herbs: stars, spirits and medicinal plants in Late Imperial China
Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira
Part 5: The World of Sinographic Medicine: a diversity of interlinked traditions
32. Transmission of Persian Medicine into China across the Ages
Chen Ming
33. Vietnam in the Pre-Modern Period
Leslie de Vries
34. History and Characteristics of Korean Medicine
Yeonseok KANG
35. Chinese-style Medicine in Japan
Katja Triplett
36. A Brief History of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Yang Yan
37. Minority Medicine
Lai Lili and Zhen Yan
Part 6: Wider Diasporas
38. Early Modern Reception in Europe: translations and transmissions
Éric Marié
39. The Emergence of the Practice of Acupuncture on the Medical Landscape of France and Italy in the Twentieth Century
Lucia Candelise
40. Entangled Worlds: Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States
Mei Zhan
41. The Migration of Acupuncture through the Imperium Hispanicum: case studies from Cuba, Guatemala and the Philippines
Paul Kadetz
42. Long and Winding Roads: the transfer of Chinese medical practices to African contexts
Paul Kadetz
43. Translating Chinese Medicine in the West: language, culture, and practice
Sonya Pritzker
Part 7: Negotiating Modernity
44. The Declaration of Alma Ata: the global adoption of a Maoist model for Universal Healthcare
Paul Kadetz
45. Communist Medicine: the emergence of TCM and barefoot doctors, leading to contemporary medical markets
Xiaoping Fang
46. Contested Medicines in Twentieth-Century China
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
47. Public Health in Twentieth-Century China
Tina Phillips Johnson
48. Encounters with Linnaeus? Modernisation of Pharmacopoeia through Bernard Read and Zhao Yuhuang up to the Present
Lena Springer
49. Dear, D. ‘Yangsheng in the Twenty First Century: embodiment, belief and collusion
David Dear
50. Butler, A. Liquorice and Chinese Herbal Medicine: an epistemological challenge
Anthony Butler
51. Heinrich, M., Ka Yui Kum and Ruyu Yao ‘Decontextualised Chinese Medicines: their use as health foods and medicines in the ‘global North’
Michael Heinrich, Ka Yui Kum and Ruyu Yao
Biography
Vivienne Lo 羅維前 is Professor of Chinese History at University College London. She has published widely on the ancient and medieval history of medicine in China and in diaspora. Her research interests include medical manuscripts, medical imagery and the history of nutrition.
Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源 is Assistant Professor in History at the School of Humanities, and of Medical Humanities at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. An historian of Chinese medicine and religion, particularly Daoism, he works on the early imperial period as well as contemporary Sinophone communities. Currently completing a monograph on medicine and religion as related genres of practice in China, he also produces digital humanities tools and datasets to study the migration of medicine across spatio-temporal, intellectual and linguistic boundaries.
Dolly Yang 楊德秀 is a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She received a PhD in 2018 from University College London for her investigation into the institutionalisation of therapeutic exercise in Sui China (581–618 CE). She has a particular interest in examining the use of non-drug-based therapy in early medieval China, allied to a passion for translating and analysing ancient Chinese medical and self-cultivation texts.
"This book is a must-have on the shelves for not only every Chinese Medicine practitioner and Chinese medicine historian, but also for every aspiring Daoist scholar and Daoist practitioner alike. It is a near-inexhaustible treasure trove and an eclectic source of profound knowledge."
Johan Hausen, Founder of Purple Cloud Press
