Recreating the "patient": Spatial Politics under the Conflict between Chinese and Western Medicine, 1832-1985 (2nd Edition)
by Yang Nianqun
About This Novel
The main purpose of this book is to explore the long history of how Chinese people since the late Qing Dynasty have changed from "normal" to "pathological", and how they have been observed, transformed and treated as "patients" in modern times. The title "Sick Man of East Asia" is not only a metaphor for the bullying of the Chinese people, but also a driving force for nationalistic social change. In this sense, "treatment" is no longer just a simple medical process, but has become the focus of political and social system changes, and individual treatment behaviors have thus become an integral part of group political movements. The author uses a novel and unique narrative technique to vividly reproduce another historical aspect of the magnificent changes in Chinese society through dozens of interconnected scenes. The figures active in these scenes include Western medicine missionaries, midwives and social reformers, as well as Chinese medicine practitioners who sit in the hall, use incense to see patients, and practice medicine on the go, as well as various politicians and barefoot doctors. This book strives to fully demonstrate the complex interactive game relationship between modern political evolution and traditional medical factors in a state of "contextualized writing".
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