The Politics of Chinese Medicine Under Mongol Rule (Needham Research Institute Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138099325 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 194 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Using a variety of Chinese-language sources including gazetteers, legal texts, biographies, poems, and medical texts, it analyses the roles of the Mongols and West and Central Asians as cultural brokers and also as unifiers of China. The Politics of Chinese Medicine under Mongol Rule emphasizes the impact of the political and institutional changes caused by the Mongols and their collaborators on the social and cultural history of medicine, which culminated in the medical theory of Zhu Zhenheng (1282–1358), still influential in East Asian medicine. Further, it views North and South Chinese elites as agents of historical change rather than as victims of Mongol oppression.Underlining the complexity of the history of China under the Mongols and the significance of time and geography for the study of this history, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese medical history, Chinese social and cultural history, and medieval global history.. During this period, further major steps were also taken towards the codification of medical knowledge and promotion of physicians’ social status.This book traces the history of the politics, inst
. Reiko Shinno is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA
About the Author Reiko Shinno is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA.