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• W2347923100 abstract "Reviewed by: Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames by Mei Zhan Xiaoping Fang (bio) Mei Zhan. Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. xiv, 241 pp. Paperback $23.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4384-4. The history of traditional Chinese medicine in the twentieth century can be categorized into three periods in terms of its dynamic relationship with Western medicine. In the first period, from the late 1920s to the early 1950s, traditional Chinese medicine encountered a serious legitimacy crisis initiated by the state and the profession of Western medicine while still maintaining its popular legitimacy in practice. In the second period, from 1954 to the late 1970s, it obtained the legitimacy offered by the state, while being steadily marginalized by the rapid entry of Western medicine into rural China through scientizing, institutionalization, and professionalization. In the third period, from the early 1980s to the present, traditional Chinese medicine gradually became the medicine of last resort for chronic, incurable diseases, undesirable insufficiencies, and even acute infectious diseases like SARS, while embodying cosmopolitan middle-class features. In the meantime, traditional Chinese medicine has also dispersed throughout the world, and it has begun to be accepted as an alternative treatment option in many countries. “Urbanization” and “globalization” might best summarize the key trends of the third period, which took place in the context of China’s market economy reforms. However, compared with thorough historical studies of the first two periods, many key questions about traditional Chinese medicine in the third period remain unanswered: How has it repositioned itself and targeted the consumption and patient groups? How has it maintained its traditional identity in terms of the ethics and proficiency of its practitioners? How has it survived the fierce competition posed by biomedicine? How has it interpreted this traditional medical knowledge under the dominance of biomedicine? What is the relationship among women, gender, and the family in traditional Chinese medicine in the context of societal change? How is traditional Chinese medicine understood in the globalized context today? Mei Zhan’s Other-Worldly weaves these questions into a transnational frame while endeavoring to understand traditional Chinese medicine through the perspective of “other-worldly encounters.” She points out the “unexpected encounters, dislocated actors, entangled knowledges, situated dialogues, and fragile networks that make up traditional Chinese medicine” (p. 5). She describes “translocal movements, displacements, and refigurations” as the “worlding” of traditional Chinese medicine, which is the “emergent, transformative relations and processes deeply and inexorably enmeshed in sociohistorically contingent productions of difference” (p. 7). Within this framework, she offers answers to the questions listed above based on her ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai and San Francisco, where the features of urbanization and globalization in the history of traditional Chinese medicine are the most obvious. [End Page 412] The book is composed of three parts. Part 1, “Entanglements,” examines traditional Chinese medicine as a world-making project that exceeds globalist narratives. Chapter 1 traces the multiple, uneven trajectories and shifting meaning of Chinese medicine as “preventive medicine” from the international proletariat medical model in the 1960s and 1970s to the white middle-class model represented by the California lifestyle since the 1980s. “Get on track with the world” and the health reform under the market economy in China in the late 1990s facilitated the emergence of a new health concept called yajiankang (subhealth), which prompted Chinese medicine to be incorporated into the new cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyle. Chapter 2 examines how encounters with biomedicine and the process of commodification and marketization reconfigure and challenge traditional Chinese medicine as a practice of “kind hearts and kind skills” (renxin renshu). The “rationalization” principle defined by biomedicine and biological science embraces and legitimizes the active ingredients of medical practice in traditional Chinese medicine, but results in its fragmentation because some elements cannot be interpreted within the scope of biomedicine. The pursuit of “kind hearts and kind skills” is reflected in the basic diagnostic techniques of daily practice, young students’ understanding of Chinese medicine and a medical career, and how Chinese medical practitioners pursue their professional identities. Part 2, “Negotiation,” explores how the clinical knowledge and authorities of traditional Chinese medicine are being refigured..." @default.
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