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Mao's bestiary : medicinal animals and modern China / Liz P. Y. Chee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chee, Liz P. Y., 1977- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Experimental futures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica, Animal--China.
- Materia medica, Animal.
- Pharmacognosy--China.
- Pharmacognosy.
- Animals--Therapeutic use--China.
- Animals.
- Traditional medicine.
- Animals--Therapeutic use.
- China.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Abandon Chinese Medicine, Retain Chinese Drugs": Creating a State Pharmaceutical Sector
- "To Learn from the Soviet Union": Russian Influence on Chinese Pharmaceuticals
- The Great Leap Forward and the Rise of Medicinal Animal Farming
- The Quest for Innovation: Folk Remedies and Animal Therapies
- "Economic Animals": Deng's Reforms and Rise of Bear Farming
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chee, Liz P. Y., 1977- Mao's bestiary.
- ISBN:
- 9781478021353
- 1478021357
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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