Article: Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: A Medicine of Revolution

Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-63: A Medicine of Revolution, by Kim Taylor. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. xii + 236 pp. £60.00/US$105.00 (hardcover).

How did Chinese medicine, which first partially lost official patronage during the Qing dynasty and then was accused of being a hoary remnant of feudalism, achieve the overwhelming revival it has today? How did therapeutic practice, training and diagnosis evolve under the new, highly politicized state sponsorship of the People's Republic of China? In a book covering the crucial period 1945-63, Kim Taylor explores how Chinese medicine repeatedly transformed itself in order to survive. This ability to be "flexible at the very ...

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