Article: Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China

Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China, by Yanhua Zhang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xiv + 191 pp. US$75.50 (hardcover), US$24.95 (paperback).

Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine presents an ethnographic account of qingzhi bing (emotions-related sicknesses) in zhongyi (Chinese medicine) taxonomy and practices. Following Judith Farquhar's Knowing Practice, Yanhua Zhang contextualizes her research within kanbing (looking at illness) processes in Chinese medical clinics. Utilizing the concept of embodied culture, language theories and Chinese medical epistemology, she uses a "meaning-centered interpretive ...

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