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  Book Title: Neither
Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In)	
	
  Book Author: Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (Author) 
   Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In
   Hardcover: 376 pages
  
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (September 9, 2014)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10:
022616988X
   ISBN-13: 978-0226169880
  
  Book Description
 
Publication Date: September 9, 2014
  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.
  
  Reviews
  “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)
  
  “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)
  
  About the Author
  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. 						

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