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Conference Paper: The Chinese Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pharmaceutical Crisis and the Scientization of Chinese Drugs, 1919-1936
Title | The Chinese Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pharmaceutical Crisis and the Scientization of Chinese Drugs, 1919-1936 |
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Other Titles | The Chinese Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pharmaceutical Crisis and the Reform of Chinese Drugs in Republican China |
Authors | |
Keywords | Scientization of Chinese drugs Pharmaceutical Crisis Chinese pharmaceutical Revolution |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Brazilian Society for the History of Science (Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência - SBHC) |
Citation | The 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST): Science, Technology and Medicine between the Global and the Local, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23- 29 July 2017. In Book of Abstracts, p. 222 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper explores the new attempts to reform the Chinese pharmaceutical practice by applying
mechanical and chemical intervention in republican China. Since 1910s, major deficiencies of Chinese
drugs had been identified in terms of the absence of scientific research and the incompetence in the
market competition with imported western drugs. An urgent situation of “Chinese pharmaceutical
crisis” was proposed by contemporaries and different initiatives and actions were undertook by
different groups of people. This paper examines two mainstream approaches in republican period to
renovate the Chinese pharmaceutical practices. The first was proposed by West and Japanese trained
pharmacologists who keenly stressed the necessity to undertake rigorous scientific study of the
traditional Chinese materia medica, which would finally lead to a universal standard for drug
research and production making fully use of nationally produced material. The other was a more
controversial yet pragmatic approach favored by industrialists to seek the possibility to reform the
Chinese drug manufacture by imitating the modern technology applied by western drugs.
Both of the two attempts called their own practice as “Chinese Pharmaceutical Revolution”, which
further demonstrates the contested and tentative nature of republican pharmaceutical renovations.
The transformation of Chinese pharmaceutical practices was not a coherent idea or practice in
republican China, and throughout the process, the historical actors contested over the practice of
reforming Chinese drugs, mobilized the public opinion, and created new visions of “Chinese
pharmaceutical revolution”. Political instability, social changes, market forces, and nationalism were
deeply embedded in the process, and the result of the “revolution” reached a compromise, though
volatile and controversial, between the two systems of medicine, and between the scientific dream
and the social reality, which continues to shape the pharmaceutical practices in contemporary China. |
Description | 019. Understanding One Thousand Golden Drugs: Transformation of Pharmaceutical Practice from Premodern to Contemporary China |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/271870 |
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dc.contributor.author | Liu, X | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-20T10:31:03Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-20T10:31:03Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST): Science, Technology and Medicine between the Global and the Local, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23- 29 July 2017. In Book of Abstracts, p. 222 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/271870 | - |
dc.description | 019. Understanding One Thousand Golden Drugs: Transformation of Pharmaceutical Practice from Premodern to Contemporary China | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the new attempts to reform the Chinese pharmaceutical practice by applying mechanical and chemical intervention in republican China. Since 1910s, major deficiencies of Chinese drugs had been identified in terms of the absence of scientific research and the incompetence in the market competition with imported western drugs. An urgent situation of “Chinese pharmaceutical crisis” was proposed by contemporaries and different initiatives and actions were undertook by different groups of people. This paper examines two mainstream approaches in republican period to renovate the Chinese pharmaceutical practices. The first was proposed by West and Japanese trained pharmacologists who keenly stressed the necessity to undertake rigorous scientific study of the traditional Chinese materia medica, which would finally lead to a universal standard for drug research and production making fully use of nationally produced material. The other was a more controversial yet pragmatic approach favored by industrialists to seek the possibility to reform the Chinese drug manufacture by imitating the modern technology applied by western drugs. Both of the two attempts called their own practice as “Chinese Pharmaceutical Revolution”, which further demonstrates the contested and tentative nature of republican pharmaceutical renovations. The transformation of Chinese pharmaceutical practices was not a coherent idea or practice in republican China, and throughout the process, the historical actors contested over the practice of reforming Chinese drugs, mobilized the public opinion, and created new visions of “Chinese pharmaceutical revolution”. Political instability, social changes, market forces, and nationalism were deeply embedded in the process, and the result of the “revolution” reached a compromise, though volatile and controversial, between the two systems of medicine, and between the scientific dream and the social reality, which continues to shape the pharmaceutical practices in contemporary China. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Brazilian Society for the History of Science (Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência - SBHC) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology | - |
dc.subject | Scientization of Chinese drugs | - |
dc.subject | Pharmaceutical Crisis | - |
dc.subject | Chinese pharmaceutical Revolution | - |
dc.title | The Chinese Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pharmaceutical Crisis and the Scientization of Chinese Drugs, 1919-1936 | - |
dc.title.alternative | The Chinese Pharmaceutical Revolution: Pharmaceutical Crisis and the Reform of Chinese Drugs in Republican China | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 298609 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 222 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 222 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Brazil | - |