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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.

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"A major work by the leading scholar in the field of modern Chinese medical history. Lei's 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)"

Neither Donkey nor Horse

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    A Hardback by Sean Hsiang-lin Lei

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 9 September 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226169880
      978-0226169880
      ISBN-10 022616988X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "A major work by the leading scholar in the field of modern Chinese medical history. Lei's 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)"

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