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- Title
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China.
- Abstract
Chee argues that the process of faunal medicalisation, as a modern phenomenon, started in the early People's Republic of China (PRC) years in the 1950s and continuously intensified throughout the rest of the Maoist era (1949-76) and Deng period (1978-97). There is a growing idea that Chinese medicine, often misrepresented as a homogeneous, "traditional" theory and practice despite its diversity, exploits animals, even endangered ones. Liz Chee complicates this idea by examining the historical development of the incorporation of animal parts and tissue in both state-sanctioned and more popular forms of Chinese medicine, or "faunal medicalisation".
- Subjects
CHINA; MAO, Zedong, 1893-1976; CHINESE people; SCIENTIFIC literature; CHINESE medicine; SCIENCE in literature; HERBAL medicine; TRADITIONAL medicine; CHARISMA
- Publication
History, 2021, Vol 106, Issue 373, p871
- ISSN
0018-2648
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-229X.13231