作者：HeBian
出版社：PrincetonUniversityPress
副标题：PharmacyandCultureinEarlyModernChina
出版年：2020-4
页数：240
定价：$39.95/£34.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780691179049
内容简介
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Know Your Remedies presents a panoramic inquiry into China’s early modern cultural transformation through the lens of pharmacy. In the history of science and civilization in China, pharmacy—as a commercial enterprise and as a branch of classical medicine—resists easy characterization. While China’s long tradition of documenting the natural world through state-commissioned pharmacopeias, known as bencao, dwindled after the sixteenth century, the ubiquitous presence of Chinese pharmacy shops around the world today testifies to the vitality of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Rejecting narratives of intellectual stagnation or an unchanging folk culture, He Bian argues that pharmacy’s history in early modern China can best be understood as a dynamic interplay between elite and popular culture.
Beginning with decentralizing trends in book culture and fiscal policy in the sixteenth century, Bian reveals pharmacy’s central role in late Ming public discourse. Fueled by factional politics in the early 1600s, amateur investigation into pharmacology reached peak popularity among the literati on the eve of the Qing conquest in the mid-seventeenth century. The eighteenth century witnessed a systematic reclassification of knowledge, as the Qing court turned away from pharmacopeia in favor of a demedicalized natural history. Throughout this time, growth in long-distance trade enabled the rise of urban pharmacy shops, generating new knowledge about the natural world.
作者简介
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He Bian is assistant professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University.
目录
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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part 1
1 The Last Pharmacopeia 23
2 Converting Tribute 49
3 The Nature of Drugs 74
Part2
4 Virtuosity and Orthodoxy 105
5 The Marketplace and the Shop 126
6 Eating Exotica 153
Epilogue 179
Appendixes 185
Chinese Character Glossary 187
Notes 191
Index 241
评论 ······
越读越喜欢边和的研究，是我梦寐以求的，对于整个时代有整体连贯认知的作品。就觉得有点不划算，因为虽然从医疗的角度重新解读early modern China,但是得出来的结论其实是对既有结论的细微修正，而没有那么响亮、耀眼。可是做研究又不是搞革命，不是吗？
细读了第二章，边和延展性的写作，给写无甚相关的朝贡的我也能带来启发
Chapter 5 and 6 are excellent! Bian’s peculiar angle of pharmaceutical long-distance interregional trades situates Ming-Qing China in a “global historical paradigm” as “an essential part of global ear…
第一时间读到，太惊艳了。不是我的领域，但读完对整个明清社会的epistemology转折有了醍醐灌顶的认识。写作也是典范，佩服边和，as always❤️
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