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发表于2024-12-23
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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.
Review
“In this insightful and provocative book, Lei shows us what it meant to practice ‘modern’ medicine in Mao Zedong’s semicolonial and semifeudal society. Drawing on rich historical sources, Neither Donkey nor Horse reveals that modern medicine will always be mongrel medicine. Importantly, Lei gives us the critical postcolonial genealogy for ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine,’ the epitome of Chinese modernity, now a global phenomenon.”
(Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney)
“Reaching far beyond the history of modern China, Neither Donkey nor Horse challenges conventional understanding of modernity, 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 modernizing processes in the twentieth century as they touched down and transformed worlds in China. The book demonstrates that medical knowledge and practice, whether ‘modern’ 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 modern regimes of health and population governance.”
(Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago)
“Neither Donkey nor Horse is a tour de force of how both Western and Chinese medicine played central roles not only in Chinese modernity 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 modernity 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 modern 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 Western 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 Western 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)
“If you are going to read just one book on the modern history of Chinese medicine, this is the work to read. Lei’s analysis of the entwinement of medicine, science, modernity, 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)
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.
醫學社會史入門書,三年前初讀時驚為天人!當時開著和樹哥的視頻在讀這本書,不由自主地把整個introduction部分朗讀齣來瞭,寫的太棒瞭,一嚮不怎麼聽我說話的樹某某都不住稱贊,文章寫成這樣纔有資格做芝大的博士,因為他我對杜贊奇好感度大增。主論點如題,所謂中國傳統醫學(Traditional Chinese Medicine)既不傳統也不是現代醫學,而是清末民初社會轉型時中醫從業者自我修補以自救的造物。果然還沒有中譯本,不然直接打臉中國中醫科學院。
評分近代中醫的掙紮和努力。西醫的科學性和有效性使其在近代中國取得在國傢政權中的優勢地位,麵對這一情況,中醫並非被動挨打,主動開始謀求和政權閤作,推進中醫科學化,深入鄉村行醫等等,中醫獲得“現代性”。
評分很棒。對“非驢非馬”的"現代中醫”的形成過程中,中醫、西醫和國傢之間的糾結,以及它與中國“現代性”的關係,有非常好的剖析。配閤老皮的專著,對近代中醫的發展當有更為深入的理解。
評分喜歡
評分很不錯。Lei關於中醫現代史的基本論點是:因為中醫無法如現代的生物醫學/西醫那樣預防疾病、保障公共健康和進入教育係統,所以為瞭成為進行現代國傢建設的“中國”的國醫,必須科學化中醫,繼而創造齣一種“非驢非馬”的雜醫。但這並不意味著他們是反現代的,這群中醫從業者恰恰是探索中醫現代性和作為整體的中國現代性的積極行動主體。在共和、國民和共産主義時期,他們在“國傢場域”之下代錶中醫與國傢互動,不斷使中醫進化。自然-文化這一內在分界帶來西方-非西方的外在分界,在現代化過程中,我們應該采取Latour的觀點,關注兩極中的雜閤體。在本書中,則是“雜中醫”,它不是傳統的餘孽,也非單純的試驗失敗品,它能嚮我們證明現代科學和非西方文化間可能的關係。我們從未現代過,或者說,他者們也為現代性做齣許多貢獻。
As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
評分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
評分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
評分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
評分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
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