Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626-2006
by Scheid, VolkerEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2007-05-01
Publisher(s): EASTLAND PRESS
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Summary
In 1626, A Young Man named Fei Shangyou moved his family to Menghe, a small town in the Yangzi delta of China. According to family legend, he abandoned his career as a scholar and began working as a physician. In doing so, he founded a medical lineage that continues to the present day. This book describes the development, flourishing, and decline of this lineage and its many branches, as well as that of the other medical lineages and families with which it merged over time to form the "current of Menghe learning" (Menghe xuepai $$).
Author Biography
Volker Scheid is a scholar physician with more than twenty years of clinical experience in the practice of Chinese medicine. A senior research fellow at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London (UK), he also maintains a private medical practice and lectures internationally. He has published widely in academic and professional journals, including a book Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis (Duke University Press, 2002).
Table of Contents
| List of Figures, Tables & Timelines | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xix |
| Introduction Chinese Medicine and the Problem of Tradition | p. 1 |
| Tradition in the Western Imagination | p. 5 |
| Dynamic Traditions | p. 8 |
| Studying Living Traditions | p. 10 |
| Currents of Learning | p. 11 |
| Plan of the Book | p. 13 |
| Terminology, Names, and Appendices | p. 15 |
| Late Imperial China Family, Lineage, & Social Networks | p. 17 |
| Economy and Society in Late Imperial China | p. 19 |
| Changzhou, Wujin, and Menghe: A Brief History | p. 21 |
| Jiangnan Economy, Society, and Culture | p. 27 |
| Jiangnan Lineages and Social Networks | p. 28 |
| The Scholarly Medical Tradition in Late Imperial China | p. 33 |
| Setting the Stage: Classical Medicine before the Song | p. 35 |
| Spreading Imperial Benevolence | p. 37 |
| Scholar Physicians | p. 40 |
| Scholarly Medicine and the Politics of Identity | p. 41 |
| Scholarly Medicine in the Ming and Qing | p. 45 |
| The Retreat into Orthodoxy | p. 47 |
| Individual Virtuosity and Innovation | p. 49 |
| The Field of Medicine at the End of the Qing | p. 52 |
| Elite Medicine in Wujin County | p. 54 |
| The Origins of Menghe Medicine | p. 59 |
| Beginnings | p. 63 |
| Consolidation | p. 69 |
| Flourishing | p. 71 |
| The Sha Family | p. 76 |
| The Ma Family | p. 78 |
| Supralocal Networks | p. 82 |
| The Flourishing of Menghe Medicine | p. 85 |
| Fei Boxiong $$ (1800-1879) | p. 86 |
| Ma Peizhi $$ (1820-1903) | p. 94 |
| The Chao Lineage | p. 99 |
| Hegemonic Networks and Strategies of Dominance | p. 100 |
| The Ideal and the Real in the Field of Medical Practice | p. 105 |
| Hierarchy, Reputation, and the Struggle to Become a Physician | p. 109 |
| Individuals, Families, and Lineages: Competition and Cooperation | p. 111 |
| The Eastward Spread of Menghe Medicine | p. 115 |
| The Fei: Keeping It (Almost) in the Family | p. 118 |
| The Ma: Discipleship and Local Networks | p. 134 |
| The Yu Family | p. 143 |
| The Chao Family | p. 148 |
| From Lineage to Network | p. 151 |
| Fei Boxiong and the Development of the Menghe Medical Style | p. 153 |
| Style and Virtuosity in Chinese Medicine | p. 153 |
| The Roots of the Menghe Medical Style | p. 155 |
| Searching for Authenticity: Fei Boxiong's Medicine of the Refined | p. 158 |
| Authenticity in Practice | p. 162 |
| The Menghe Medical Style | p. 167 |
| From Personal Style to Local Medicine | p. 170 |
| Republican China Native Place, National Essence, and Divergent Modernities | p. 173 |
| Chinese Medicine in Shanghai at the Dawn of the Modern Era | p. 175 |
| Family Traditions, Medical Currents, and Sojourning Physicians in Shanghai | p. 178 |
| The Social Organization of Chinese Medicine in Shanghai | p. 182 |
| Native Place, Identity, and Modernization | p. 184 |
| The Modernization of Chinese Medicine in Republican China | p. 189 |
| The Cause for Modernization | p. 189 |
| Institutional Modernization and its Relation to the Past | p. 193 |
| Creating a National Medicine | p. 199 |
| Connecting Chinese Medicine to Science and Modernity | p. 202 |
| Personal Views on Medical Modernization: Four Biographies | p. 208 |
| Genealogies of People and of Ideas | p. 219 |
| Ding Ganren and the Birth of the Menghe Current | p. 223 |
| Beginnings: 1820-1890 | p. 225 |
| Early Years in Shanghai: 1890-1905 | p. 227 |
| Famous Physician, Businessman, and Teacher: 1905-1916 | p. 230 |
| Medical Modernization and the Politics of Guanxi: Establishing the Shanghai College of Chinese Medicine | p. 233 |
| From Benevolent Societies to Chinese Medical Hospitals | p. 239 |
| The Invention of the Menghe Medical Current | p. 242 |
| Opening Up a New Medical Current | p. 244 |
| The Politics of Association | p. 248 |
| Ding Family Medicine after Ding Ganren | p. 249 |
| Ding Zhongying $$ (1886-1978) | p. 251 |
| Ding Jiwan $$ (1903-1963) | p. 257 |
| Ding Jingyuan $$ (1930-1995) | p. 263 |
| From Global Networks to a Global Medicine | p. 264 |
| Ding Jihua $$ (1909-1964) | p. 266 |
| Ding Jimin $$ (1912-1979) | p. 268 |
| Ding Ji'nan $$ (1913-2000) | p. 271 |
| The End of Menghe Medicine? | p. 274 |
| Continuity and Difference within Ding Family Medicine | p. 277 |
| The Medicine of Ding Ganren | p. 278 |
| Ding Family Styles of Prescribing: Four Case Studies | p. 283 |
| Abandoning Family Tradition: The Medicine of Ding Ji'nan | p. 288 |
| Wind Is the Father of the Myriad Diseases | p. 290 |
| Ding Family Medicine and the Scholarly Medical Tradition | p. 293 |
| Contemporary China Inheriting, Remembering, and Reconfiguring Tradition in a Modern State | p. 295 |
| The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine and its Discontents | p. 297 |
| Difficult Beginnings: 1949-1953 | p. 300 |
| Establishing an Institutional Infrastructure for Traditional Chinese Medicine: 1954-1966 | p. 303 |
| Interruptions: The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 | p. 311 |
| Continuities: Chinese Medicine in the Post-Maoist Period, 1977-1989 | p. 313 |
| The Politics of Guanxi | p. 315 |
| Toward the Present: 1989 and Beyond | p. 317 |
| Inheriting Tradition, Developing Medicine, and Cultivating the Self | p. 319 |
| Cheng Menxue $$: Modernizing Tradition without Surrendering to the Modern | p. 321 |
| Qin Bowei $$: Reform through Education | p. 328 |
| Zhang Cigong $$: A Revolutionary Rooted in Tradition | p. 340 |
| Wujin Medicine Remembered | p. 357 |
| How the Menghe Current Came to Define Wujin Medicine | p. 360 |
| How Wu Family Medicine Was Forgotten | p. 364 |
| How the Qian Family Current Was (Almost) Deleted from History | p. 367 |
| Why Xie Guan $$ Is Famous but Not Remembered How He Wanted to Be | p. 377 |
| Tradition and the Labor of Social Memory | p. 384 |
| Epilogue Currents of Tradition Revisited | p. 389 |
| List of Names | p. 397 |
| List of Place Names | p. 404 |
| Disciples of Fei Boxiong and Fei Shengfu | p. 405-406 |
| Disciples of Ma Peizhi | p. 407 |
| Disciples of the Chao Family | p. 410 |
| Important Disciples of Ding Ganren | p. 411 |
| Physicians from Menghe and Wujin County Who Practiced in Shanghai | p. 413 |
| Notes | p. 419 |
| Bibliography | p. 483 |
| Index | p. 525 |
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