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Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China?s exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative of the political history of modern China, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei argues that China?s medical history had a life of its own, one that at times directly influenced the ideological struggle over the meaning of China?s modernity and the Chinese state. ??????????? Far from being a remnant of China?s premodern past, Chinese medicine in the twentieth century coevolved with Western medicine and the Nationalist state, undergoing a profound transformation?institutionally, epistemologically, and materially?that resulted in the creation of a modern Chinese medicine. This new medicine was derided as ?neither donkey nor horse? because it necessarily betrayed both of the parental traditions and therefore was
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