This study explored how 气-(qi), one of the most fundamental tenets in traditional Chinese
medical praxis, has been historically annotated into a “hermeneutic situation” at different …

What did the early Chinese medical body look like before it was inhabited by the five viscera
and before canonical medical rationale was framed in terms of the five agents (wuxing …

Difficulties in rendering into English the Chinese term xie have dogged historians of Chinese
medicine working in different historical periods and social/religious contexts. A core …

The Expressiveness of the Body by Shigehisa Kuriyama is a magnificent and provocative
work that explores the historical construction of the radically different conceptions of the …

How did a new science initially promoted by just a few individuals eventually become a
widespread cultural phenomenon practised and known by thousands of people? This thesis …

Studies on the terminology of expert knowledge tend toneglect the relevance of sociological
data, in spiteof general acceptance that knowledge and socialpractice are interdependent …

Matteo Ricci introduced into China the Western theory of soul, a term which he translated as
linghun 靈魂. Afterwards, two other Italian Jesuits, Giulio Aleni and Francesco Sambiasi …

Chinese Medicine, written by the esteemed anthropologist Judith Farquhar, looks like a slim,
almost pocket-sized “introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine”(so says its book jacket) …

If you read almost any textbook about Chinese medicine, you will find that the identity and
authority of traditional Chinese medicine remain firmly rooted in references to classical …

Historians of Chinese medicine acknowledge the plurality of Chinese medicine along both
synchronic and diachronic dimensions. Yet, there remains a tendency to think of tradition as …