Seeking a Path for Chinese Medicine
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Summary
Over four years, the author conducted on-site investigations into the TCM system, TCM education, and the origins of medicinal materials, gathering extensive firsthand material. Centered on the revitalization and development of TCM, the book chronicles the disputes over preserving or abolishing TCM after the spread of Western learning to the East, and the founding, construction, and development of TCM medical services and education after the founding of the People's Republic of China, objectively presenting TCM's unique efficacy, its survival difficulties, and existing problems. This is a cultural journey in exploration of TCM and a powerful literary work that opens the door to TCM.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with a deep interest in TCM culture and its contemporary predicament
- Humanities enthusiasts concerned with the modernization of traditional culture and social change
- Readers who enjoy nonfiction, especially work combining field research with personal narrative
- Professionals or students in healthcare who wish to broaden their understanding of the field
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking a practical guide to specific health-preserving methods or folk remedies
- Readers hoping for purely theoretical or historical-academic inquiry into TCM
Reading tips
- Approach the book as a journey of cultural exploration: follow the author's steps, feel the stories first, then consider the questions.
- While reading, set aside preconceived pro- or anti-TCM positions and try to understand the logic and dilemmas of each person in the book.
- The book touches on regional cultures and industry terminology; slow down where needed and take brief notes to follow the threads.
About the publisher
Founded in 1984, Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House is a professional literary and art publisher. Its collection of 389 titles spans classic works, essays and miscellaneous writings, Eastern philosophy, folk literature, classical literature and design. Representative books include Lao She's Camel Xiangzi, Laozi's Dao De Jing, Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the Shakespeare drama collection featuring Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and Othello, with Zhu Shenghao's translations adding luster to the series. Its author resources range from classic Chinese and foreign writers such as Lao She, Laozi, Luo Guanzhong and William Shakespeare to translators and authors including Zhu Shenghao, Li Chensen and Liang Sicheng. The publisher is characterized by its balance of Chinese and foreign literary classics with traditional culture titles, combining scholarly value with popular reading. Public information is limited, and the above is based mainly on the books in the collection.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 引言
- 第一章 谁来振兴中医
- 中医的味道
- 我们正在见证中医药的式微
- 令人困惑的高等中医药教育
- 我们究竟该怎样看待中医
- 第二章 寻找时光深处的本草
- 药与毒
- 探问黄州
- 夜抵蕲春
- 墓园凭吊
- 叩问药都
- 第三章 如何审视民间中医
- 民间中医的处境
- 官方中医的傲慢与偏见
- 民间中医的抗癌调查
- 第四章 呼唤名医
- 名医都到哪去了
- 名中医的神奇效应
- 名医是怎样炼成的
- 第五章 药有“病”，人知否
- 中医会亡于中药吗
- 亳州，光环背后的阴影
- 禹州，盛名之下其实难副
- 第六章 药草的追问
- 道地药材并非故弄玄虚
- 道地药材的现状
- 从蕲艾看道地药材的保护与开发
- 第七章 中药的百年老店
- 老字号，记忆中的光与影
- 如何打造中药的世界品牌
- 第八章 是谁损害了中医
- 中医与时代的遭遇
- 名人对中医的态度
- 现代医学的反思
- 中医不能跑偏了方向
- 小心把中医弄成了大忽悠
- 中医的大树理论
- 一本书和一个时代
- 第九章 中医的当下与未来
- 中医有怎样的未来
- 中医需用疗效去化解质疑
- 中医该怎样面向未来
- 参考文献
- 后记
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About the author
Zhan Wenge is a Chinese-language writer about whom limited public information is available. Two works can currently be confirmed: Seeking a Way for Chinese Medicine and Longing on the Earth. Judging by their common categories, his writing spans documentary literature and prose miscellany. Seeking a Way for Chinese Medicine points to documentary writing on the subject of traditional Chinese medicine, typically involving investigation and narration centered on people, history, and current conditions; Longing on the Earth belongs to prose miscellany, often drawing on personal experience and everyday observation to express nostalgia for land, hometown, and human affairs. One book leans toward thematic documentary writing and the other toward personal lyricism, suggesting that the author moves between nonfiction and prose and values plain narration as a vehicle for observation and feeling. Because reliable records of his birth and death dates, nationality, education, and career are unavailable, no speculation is offered here; the note is confined to a brief account of the subjects and directions of his extant works.
