Mao's Bestiary
Medicinal Animals and Modern China
1st Edition
Published on 29. March 2021
288 pages
978-1-4780-2135-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Liz P. Y. Chee is Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute and Lecturer at Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore.
Content
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
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
