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The Politics of Chinese Medicine Under Mongol Rule (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Chinese Medicine Under Mongol Rule (Hardcover)
Series: Needham Research Institute Series
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Under the rule of the descendants of Chinggis Khan (1167-1227),
China saw the development of a new culture in which medical
practice came to be considered a highly respected occupation for
elite men. 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, institutions, and culture of medicine of China under
Mongol rule, through the eyes of a successful South Chinese
official Yuan Jue (1266-1327). As the first comprehensive monograph
on history of medicine in China under the Mongols, it argues that
this period was a separate moment in Chinese history, when a
configuration of power different from that of previous and
succeeding periods created its own medical culture. 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. 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. 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.
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