图书标签: 医疗史 海外中国研究 雷祥麟 历史 醫療史 医学 中国历史 近代史
发表于2025-03-30
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Neither Donkey nor Horse 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. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative of the political history of modern China, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei argues that China’s medical history had a life of its own, one that at times directly influenced the ideological struggle over the meaning of China’s modernity and the Chinese state.
Far from being a remnant of China’s premodern past, Chinese medicine in the twentieth century coevolved with Western medicine and the Nationalist state, undergoing a profound transformation—institutionally, epistemologically, and materially—that resulted in the creation of a modern Chinese medicine. This new medicine was derided as “neither donkey nor horse” because it necessarily betrayed both of the parental traditions and therefore was doomed to fail. Yet this hybrid medicine survived, through self-innovation and negotiation, thus challenging the conception of modernity that rejected the possibility of productive crossbreeding between the modern and the traditional.
By exploring the production of modern Chinese medicine and China’s modernity in tandem, Lei offers both a political history of medicine and a medical history of the Chinese state.
Review
“In this insightful and provocative book, Lei shows us what it meant to practice ‘modern’ medicine in Mao Zedong’s semicolonial and semifeudal society. Drawing on rich historical sources, Neither Donkey nor Horse reveals that modern medicine will always be mongrel medicine. Importantly, Lei gives us the critical postcolonial genealogy for ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine,’ the epitome of Chinese modernity, now a global phenomenon.”
(Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney)
“Reaching far beyond the history of modern China, Neither Donkey nor Horse challenges conventional understanding of modernity, science, and state power through an intellectual and social history of medical debate and development in East Asia from the late nineteenth century forward. This is a thoughtful and meticulously researched investigation of transnational modernizing processes in the twentieth century as they touched down and transformed worlds in China. The book demonstrates that medical knowledge and practice, whether ‘modern’ or ‘traditional,’ historicized or fixed as policy, are nowhere innocent of politics, culture, and social hierarchy. It offers surprising historical lessons for everyone interested in science and local knowledge, socialism and capitalism, institutions and ideas about nature as they weave together in modern regimes of health and population governance.”
(Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago)
“Neither Donkey nor Horse is a tour de force of how both Western and Chinese medicine played central roles not only in Chinese modernity but also the formation of the state in Republican China. Lei thus adroitly relates the politics of medicine and debates over making Chinese medicine more scientific to the big themes of nationalism, the state, and modernity that dominated the political struggles of early twentieth-century China.”
(Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University)
“Neither Donkey nor Horse is a major work by the leading scholar in the field of modern Chinese medical history. Lei argues that what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine as it emerged as a discourse in the early twentieth century was fundamentally shaped by the encounter with Western medicine and the relationship with the state that this dictated. Chinese medicine was something new that was created during this period in response to themes with Western biomedicine as traditional practitioners sought social mobility through participation in the state. Lei’s argument is backed up by research of the highest standard: his knowledge of the historical sources is outstanding, and he is impressively familiar with the secondary and theoretical literature in both English and Chinese. His 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)
“If you are going to read just one book on the modern history of Chinese medicine, this is the work to read. Lei’s analysis of the entwinement of medicine, science, modernity, and the state is brilliantly original and persuasive, and argued with admirable clarity. Neither Donkey nor Horse is a major contribution to science studies and the history of global health, as well as to the study of twentieth-century China.”
(Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University)
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei is associate research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; associate professor at the Institute of Science, Technology, and Society at National Yang-Ming University; and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He lives in Taipei, Taiwan.
好长,读的累死了。
评分又一本重新审视清末民国时期究竟modernity如何被建构的医疗科学史著作。比起之前的卫生的现代性,或是近两年来的typewriter和the other milk,这本书着重的是the state perspective,强调至少在民国时期,state不是一个完整强劲的actor,而是不同的代言人和机构共同组成,不断协商,遍布冲突的混合体。因此,非驴非马的中医现代化(科学化)是当时的医生们在利用state能量后斗智斗勇的完成品,它是一次对于自然身体社会的epistemological transformation,一次历尽艰辛的自我重新定义,并且随着时代的变换吆喝要着新的对策。而在这个过程中,自然社会西方中方的界限被纷纷打破,从而转圜到结尾的“我们从未现代过”(可惜国家理论和STS都较浅)
评分本书突出了中医自身在近代中国的现代性进程中的能动性,即中医的科学化、现代化不单纯依附于国家政策、科学技术和现代化的附属品。所谓非驴非马,指的是在中医现代化、科学化和规范化进程中融合生物医学后产生的“杂中医”,其产生与部分中医治疗师的努力和国民党政府密不可分。因此,要在拉图尔的基础上认识到简单的现代/传统、自然/文化的对立不能解释中医发展过程中在实践层面中西医结合的事实,就需要注意二者之间大量的杂糅部分。也正是在这个意义上“我们从未现代过”,因为“现代”无法脱离“传统”,二者不是截然对立的两种事物。
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评分初步感觉本书是雷教授对其博士论文“When Chinese Medicine Encountered the State: 1910-1949”的扩展,其中有一些章节与原文还是比较类似的,比如第5章“医学革命与国医运动”、第9章“常山”等,在此基础上增加了许多新内容,比如20世纪早期的满洲鼠疫、30-40年代的乡村医疗等。阅读本书也许同时参阅他的几篇文章可能更容易理解,比如“常山—一种新抗疟药物的诞生”、“负责任的医生与有信仰的病人”、“卫生为何不是保卫生命”、“杜聪明的汉医药研究”等。另外,“非驴非马”的说法是来自毛泽东1956年“同音乐工作者的谈话”,而这时中医的地位与1949年以前相比,即将发生翻天覆地的变化。因此“非驴非马”似乎用来形容中医在进入体制之后的尴尬地位更合适。
As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
评分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
评分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
评分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
评分As Lei is writing this book, he is conscious of Chakrabarty’s criticism of the repeated “temporal structure of the statement, ‘first in the West, and then elsewhere,’” which leads to a certain type of “academic discourse” that “all these other histo...
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