Chee Liz P. Y. Chee

Mao's Bestiary (eBook, PDF)

Medicinal Animals and Modern China

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021353
• Artikelnr.: 66282815

Autorenporträt

Liz P. Y. Chee

Inhaltsangabe

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