Mao's Bestiary

Medicinal Animals and Modern China

Liz P. Y. Chee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1404-1 (ISBN)

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Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee demonstrates that the early Communist state expanded and systematized their production and use to compensate for drug shortages, generate foreign investment in high-end animal medicines, and facilitate an ideological shift toward legitimating folk medicines. Among other topics, Chee investigates the craze for chicken blood therapy during the Cultural Revolution, the origins of deer antler farming under Mao and bear bile farming under Deng, and the crucial influence of the Soviet Union and North Korea on Chinese zootherapies. In the process, Chee shows Chinese medicine to be a realm of change rather than a timeless tradition, a hopeful conclusion given current efforts to reform its use of animals.

Liz P. Y. Chee is Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute and Lecturer at Tembusu College, both at the National University of Singapore.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. "Abandon Chinese Medicine, Retain Chinese Drugs": Creating a State Pharmaceutical Sector 27
2. "To Learn from the Soviet Union": Russian Influence on Chinese Pharmaceuticals 53
3. The Great Leap Forward and the Rise of Medicinal Animal Farming 71
4. The Quest for Innovation: Folk Remedies and Animal Therapies 99
5. "Economic Animals": Deng's Reforms and the Rise of Bear Farming 139
Conclusion 161
Notes 173
Glossary 225
Bibliography 229
Index 265

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo	9 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-1404-0 / 1478014040
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1404-1 / 9781478014041
Zustand	Neuware