Neither Donkey nor Horse:Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modeity

by: Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press ( 2014-09-09 )

ISBN-13: 9780226169880

e-ISBN-13: 9780226169910

ISBN-10: 022616988X

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Language: English

Book Description

Editorial Reviews
Review
“Neither Donkey Nor Horse is thoroughly engaging, theoretically informed, and impeccably researched. This complex story, though acknowledging the intricacies and vagaries of history, does not get bogged down in its own detail. Instead, Lei’s skillful narrative hand remains positioned above the fray, ready to guide the reader across thematic and temporal divides. It is a fascinating story, and one that will do much to advance the field of medical history in the non-West.”
― Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
“This book is equally about the surprising and dynamic history of Chinese medicine, Weste medicine, and the mode Chinese state, and it deserves the careful attention of historians of China and state-building as much as historians of medicine and science. . . . Lei’s intervention provides the most sophisticated and clear explanation yet of the issues involved.”
― Social History of Medicine
“Neither Donkey Nor Horse is a tremendous accomplishment that marks Lei as a leading historian of Chinese medicine and a major thinker in acience and technology studies. With this book, Lei has set a conceptual framework that will shape all future work on the subject.”
― East Asian Science, Technology and Society
“It is difficult to overestimate the value of this book. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, it presents the most comprehensive analysis to date of medical developments in twentieth-century China. This book delights at every tu; every chapter uses exhaustive research to build a sophisticated argument. It will be duly recognized as a masterpiece.”
― Bulletin of the History of Medicine
“In conceptualizing how the insights of critical interdisciplines—postcolonial studies or science studies—might be incorporated into the field of Asian history, two possible scenarios come to mind:in one, critical vocabularies are selectively adopted but the overall enterprise remains unmoved; in another, the foundational issues at stake in the interdiscipline become themselves the subject of the Asia historian, thus transforming the questions that are asked and the way research is carried out. It is the latter approach that Lei brilliantly demonstrates in Neither Donkey Nor Horse.”
― Chinese Literature and Culture
“If you are going to read just one book on the mode history of Chinese medicine, this is the work to read. Lei’s analysis of the entwinement of medicine, science, modeity, and the state is brilliantly original and persuasive, and argued with admirable clarity. Neither Donkey nor Horse is a major contribution to science studies and the history of global health, as well as to the study of twentieth-century China.”
— Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University
“Reaching far beyond the history of mode China, Neither Donkey nor Horse challenges conventional understanding of modeity, science, and state power through an intellectual and social history of medical debate and development in East Asia from the late nineteenth century forward. This is a thoughtful and meticulously researched investigation of transnational modeizing processes in the twentieth century as they touched down and transformed worlds in China. The book demonstrates that medical knowledge and practice, whether ‘mode’ or ‘traditional,’ historicized or fixed as policy, are nowhere innocent of politics, culture, and social hierarchy. It offers surprising historical lessons for everyone interested in science and local knowledge, socialism and capitalism, institutions and ideas about nature as they weave together in mode regimes of health and population goveance.”
— Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago
“Neither Donkey nor Horse is a tour de force of how both Weste and Chinese medicine played central roles not only in Chinese modeity but also the formation of the state in Republican China. Lei thus adroitly relates the politics of medicine and debates over making Chinese medicine more scientific to the big themes of nationalism, the state, and modeity that dominated the political struggles of early twentieth-century China.”
— Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University
“Neither Donkey nor Horse is a major work by:the leading scholar in the field of mode Chinese medical history. Lei argues that what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine as it emerged as a discourse in the early twentieth century was fundamentally shaped by:the encounter with Weste medicine and the relationship with the state that this dictated. Chinese medicine was something new that was created during this period in response to themes with Weste biomedicine as traditional practitioners sought social mobility through participation in the state. Lei’s argument is backed up by:research of the highest standard:his knowledge of the historical sources is outstanding, and he is impressively familiar with the secondary and theoretical literature in both English and Chinese. His 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
“In this insightful and provocative book, Lei shows us what it meant to practice ‘mode’ medicine in Mao Zedong’s semicolonial and semifeudal society. Drawing on rich historical sources, Neither Donkey nor Horse reveals that mode medicine will always be mongrel medicine. Importantly, Lei gives us the critical postcolonial genealogy for ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine,’ the epitome of Chinese modeity, now a global phenomenon.”
— Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
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