Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China (Experimental Futures) by Liz P. Y. Chee - 2021-05-07

pb. Good+. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Duke University Press Books, 2021-05-14. Paperback. Used: Good.

Duke University Press Books, 2021-05-14. Paperback. Used:Good.

Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021. Reprint. Softcover Paperback. New Book. 23cm x 15cm. x, 276 pages. Illustrated wrappers. "A history of the rising use of "medicinal animals" in modern China. While animal parts and tissue had been present in Chinese medicine from an early date, the book argues that their role in the Chinese pharmacopiea greatly expanded and became systematized in the changed political and economic circumstances of the early Communist period. Mao's Bestiary is the first book to place medicinal animals squarely within the historiography of Chinese medicine. In an age of controversy over the ethics and efficacy of faunal medicalization, its perpensity to foster zoonotic diseases and its devastating effect on wildlife conservation in China and worldwide, the book contributes a much-needed historical perspective, explaining the modern origins of what is too casually taken to be traditional practice" (publisher's blurb) Shipped Weight: .43 kilos.… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. Liz P. Y. Chee complicates understandings of Chinese medicine as timeless and unchanging by historicizing the expansion of animal-based medicines in the social and political environment of early Communist China.

Duke Univ Pr, 2021. Paperback. New. 280 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.51 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Liz P. Y. Chee complicates understandings of Chinese medicine as timeless and unchanging by historicizing the expansion of animal-based medicines in the social and political environment of early Communist China.

Duke Univ Pr, 2021. Paperback. New. 280 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.51 inches.

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