HIS 472/EAS 472 Medicine and Society in China: Past and Present Fall 2018

Tuesdays 1:30-4:20pm

McCormick 363

Professor He Bian 邊和 203 Dickinson Hall hbian@princeton.edu tel: 258-9192 (O) Office hours: W 10-12 & by appointment

Scene of pediatric clinic in Qiu Ying, Qingming shanghe tu

(aka. “Suzhou Scrolls”, late 16th century)

Course Description This seminar offers focused reading and discussion over several key issues in history of China as seen through the lens of medicine and healing. Using China as a complex case study, we also aim to cultivate a pluralistic understanding of medicine as evolving science, cultural system, and socio-economic enterprise. Research papers will explore the historical nature of tradition and modernity. Students from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome to attend. Weekly readings organized by topic, including but not limited to: cosmology and conceptions of the body, historical formation of medical traditions, patient-practitioner relationship, gender and reproduction, disease and epidemics, colonialism and nationalism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the contemporary world.

No previous knowledge of Chinese history or the Chinese language is necessary to participate in this seminar. However, students who wish to use Chinese or other non-English primary sources in their projects are welcome to do so and should consult me individually. seminar (n.)

1887, "special group-study class for advanced students," from German Seminar "group of students working with a professor," from Latin seminarium "breeding ground, plant nursery" (see seminary). Sense of "meeting for discussion of a subject" first recorded 1944.

Grades 25% Participation

Each class meeting will be divided to two parts, with a break in-between: 1) Discussion of readings (you must sign-up at least once as discussion leader)

Discussion leader’s responsibilities: - Prepare a 1-2 pp handout for the class that poses questions for discussion. Upload the handout to Blackboard by Monday 8am (I’ll prepare copies and bring to class). - Lead discussion in class

2) “Practice”: research exercises that are designed to familiarize students with relevant primary sources, and the craft of historical research. A combination of close reading of texts and working with library materials (catalog, database, rare books).

30% Papers (aka. “Write-ups”) - Write up two short papers based on your research “Practice” in class (see above). Each paper should be 3-5 pp with footnotes. The choice of which weeks to write up is entirely up to you, as long as you submit both to Blackboard by Dec. 14 - I strongly recommend doing one in the first six weeks. - Each short paper should include

1) short analysis of a (set of) primary source; 2) reference to a (set of) relevant secondary source that addresses a particular

issue of interest; 3) a preliminary observation / argument of your own that utilizes the chosen

primary source to shed new light on the chosen issue.

Example: Find newspaper articles in the 1930s on quarantine practices in Shanghai - connect them to the discussion of quarantine in books we read - explain in which ways your newspaper article(s) may bring new insight on the history of quarantine in modern China. 15% Take-home Mid-term Exam Chronology and key terms in materials covered so far. Open book. 30% Final project

- The final project should be built upon the student’s previous work in this class (i.e. Papers and Midterm) and limited further independent research. The format

can be a research paper (15-20 pages double-space, including a bibliography), or a 10-minute narrated slideshow accompanied by an annotated bibliography. More details on technical support will be provided later. - Please consider the possibility of doing an oral history project (more details later). - 1-pg proposal due after Thanksgiving Break (Week 10) - Short presentation & discussion in class (Week 12) - Final project due on Dean's Date (January 15, 2019), 5:00 pm

Books (all are available at Labyrinth & on reserve at Firestone) TJ Hinrichs and Linda Barnes eds. Chinese Medicine and Healing (Harvard UP, 2013) *Shigehisa Kuriyama, Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and

Chinese Medicine (Zone Books, 2002). *Charlotte Furth, A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History (California,

1999). *Angela Ki-Che Leung, Leprosy in China: A History (Columbia UP, 2009). *Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei, Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over

China's Modernity (U of Chicago Press, 2015). * available as e-books via PU Library catalog Other readings will be made available as PDF on Blackboard.

=== Week 1 (Sep 18) Introduction to the class Readings:

Hinrichs and Barnes, introduction. Watch Video: Bill Moyers, “Healing and the Mind: the Mystery of Chi” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhlVXnxvCw(also see link on Blackboard – Course Materials). # Please make sure to turn on the subtitle (CC) #

Consider: - What is Medicine? What is History? What is China? What happens when we bring all those together? - What is your goal in this class?

Week 2 (Sep 25): Early Medicine 2.1 Discussion

(Skim: Hinrichs and Barnes, Ch. 1.) Hinrichs and Barnes, Ch. 2; Kuriyama, Ch. 1, "Grasping the Language of Life," pp. 17-60 Furth, Ch. 1, "The Yellow Emperor's Body", pp. 19-58

2.2 Practice: Close reading SIMA Qian, Records of the Grand Historian, “Biography of Canggong [Chunyu Yi]”, trans. Elizabeth Hsu, Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine: The Telling Touch. Cambridge UP, 2010. PDF

Week 3 (Oct 2): Religion and Medicine 3.1 Discussion

Hinrichs and Barnes, Ch. 3 Kuriyama, Ch. 6 "Wind and Self" Leung, Ch. 2 "A Cursed but Redeemable Body"

Nathan Sivin, "Chinese Alchemy and the Manipulation of Time" PDF 3.2 Practice: close reading Selections on Sun Simiao and Tang medicine from C. Pierce Salguero ed. Buddhism and

Medicine: an Anthology of Premodern Sources. PDF

Week 4 (Oct 9): Neo-Classical Medicine 4.1 Discussion:

Hinrichs and Barnes, Ch. 4. Furth, Ch. 2 "The Development of Fuke in the Song Dynasty" Asaf goldschmidt, "The First Public Pharmacy in China" PDF

4.2 Practice: visual materials Week 5 (Oct 16): Scholarly Medicine 5.1 Discussion:

Hinrichs and Barnes, Ch. 5. Kuriyama, Ch. 2, "The Expressiveness of Words" Furth, Ch. 7 “A Doctor’s Practice: Narratives of the Clinical Encounter in Late Ming

Yangzhou” Volker Scheid, Currents of Tradition, Ch. 6, pp. 153-172. PDF

5.2 Practice: Selections from Xu Dachun, Forgotten traditions of ancient Chinese medicine (Yixue

yuanliu lun), trans. Paul Unschuld (Paradigm Publications, 1990). PDF Week 6 (Oct 23): Popular Medicine 6.1 Discussion:

Hinrichs and Barnes, Ch. 6, up to p. 193 Furth, Ch. 8 "Ming Women as Healing Experts", pp. 266-300. Leung, "The Dangerously Contagious Body", Ch. 3, pp. 84-131. Matthew Sommer, "Abortion in Late Imperial China" PDF

6.2 Practice: visit the Rare Books Special Collection in Firestone Library! (Fall Break) Week 7 (Nov 6) Missionary / Colonial Medicine # Take-Home Midterm due in class 7.1 Discussion:

Hinrichs and Barnes, pp. 193-213. Heinrich, Ch. 2, “The Pathological Body: Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture,” PDF Leung, "The Chinese Leper and the Modern World," (Ch. 4), pp. 132-176.

7.2 Practice: Close reading Edward H. Hume, Doctors East, Doctors West

Week 8 (Nov 13) Epidemics 8.1 Discussion:

Lei, Chs. 2-3, pp. 21-68. Carol Benedict, Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-century China, selections. PDF Ruth Rogaski, Hygienic Modernity, "Seen and Unseen" PDF

8.2 Practice: database, epidemiology & missionary publications Week 9 (Nov 20) National Medicine 9.1 Discussion:

Hinrichs and Barnes, pp. 213-238. Sherman Cochran, Chinese Medicine Men, Ch.2 PDF. Lei, Chs. 4-5, pp. 69-120.

9.2 Practice: database, journals & Chinese medical students abroad (Thanksgiving break)

Week 10 (Nov 27) War and Medicine # 1-pg proposal of final project due 10.1 Discussion: Lei, Chs. 9-10, pp. 193-258.

Ruth Rogaski, "Japanese Management of Germs in Tianjin," PDF Wayne Soon, "Blood, Soy Milk, and Vitality: The Wartime Origins of Blood Banking in China, 1943–45" PDF

10.2 Practice: WWII posters & propaganda Week 11 (Dec 4) Socialist Medicine 11.1 Discussion:

Hinrichs and Barnes, pp. 239-269. Leung, Ch. 5, "Leprosy in the PRC" Gail Herschatter, “Midwife”, in idem., The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past PDF Mary Brazelton, "Western Medical Education on Trial" PDF

11.2 Practice: Film: Carma Hinton, To Taste a Hundred Herbs (Blackboard - Video Reserves). Please watch before coming to class. Week 12 (Dec 11) Post-Socialist Turns and the Globalization of Chinese Medicine == Short Paper 2 due in class == 12.1 Discussion:

Hinrichs and Barnes, pp. 269-283. Skim, Hinrichs and Barnes, Chs. 9-10. Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang, Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in

Contemporary Beijing, selections. PDF 12.2 Wrap-up: workshop final project proposals