How China Became the “Cradle of Smallpox”: Transformations in Discourse, 1726–2002

Heinrich, Larissa

doi:10.1215/10679847-2006-022

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“…These are frequently incorporated without reference to the original source and/or the research context from which the texts and images are taken or which they are describing. Within the media and public health literature, these sources take on their own newly racialized messages, which Larissa Heinrich (2007) calls their “afterlife.”…”

Section: Race Place and Gender In China’s Health Media: Narrating Difference And Diseasementioning

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Distancing Disease in the Un-black Han Chinese Politic

Hood

2013

Modern China

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This article seeks to understand the meanings associated with HIV/AIDS in China’s media and examine how the “distance” many urban Chinese people feel toward HIV/AIDS is sustained, despite major changes in public health campaigns that indicate otherwise. It draws on evidence from China’s press and public health media, which remain overlooked in studies on attitudes toward HIV even though 90 percent of urban Chinese learn about HIV from the media, making it supremely important in informing urban understandings of the virus. In particular, the article examines how susceptibility to infection has become associated with racial and gender characteristics through the early portrayal of Africans in China’s media reports on HIV/AIDS. It suggests that the geographical and corporeal signification of Africa and Africans establishes an understanding that connects the “dark” consequences of HIV with skin color and a supposed lack of sociomoral and economic development, thus enabling Chinese audiences to perceive themselves as distant from or even immune to the virus. Finally, the article suggests that if attitudes toward HIV/AIDS are to be addressed, then the racialized attitudes in media toward HIV need to be analyzed, challenged, and changed.

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Section: Race Place and Gender In China’s Health Media: Narrating Difference And Diseasementioning

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“… 1. See, especially, Briggs, 2005; Briggs and Mantini-Briggs, 2003; Crimp, 1988; Enoch, 2004; Foucault, 1973, 1978; Gilman, 1988; Heinrich, 2007; Hogle, 1999; Joffe, 1999; Treichler, 1999; and Yang Nianqun, 2006. …”

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Distancing Disease in the Un-black Han Chinese Politic

Hood

2013

Modern China

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“…This metaphysical logic was in place by the Han dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE) 4 It has been noted by a number of authors that medical practice in China has been significantly hybrid for a very long time, with 'Chinese medicine' incorporating European elements even long before the nineteenth century introduction of missionary biomedicine and the rise of a nationalist ideology of scientism in the early twentieth century (Karchmer 2005, Heinrich 2007, Scheid 2002. We also note, however, that the contemporary social life of medicine is characterised by a great commitment on the part of experts of many orientations to maintaining a clear distinction between 'Chinese medicine' and 'Western medicine.'…”

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‘Knowing the Why but not the How’: A Dilemma in Contemporary Chinese Medicine

Wang¹

2009

Asian Med

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This paper explores how modernisation of Chinese medicine has transformed Chinese medicine doctors, as they like to say, from 'knowing the how but not the why' to 'knowing the why but not the how.' Through unfolding the multi-faceted connotations and associations of these proverbial formulas in the Chinese medicine field, we show the inevitable dilemma troubling many Chinese medicine doctors, who feel they are stuck between the institutional demands of catching up with the latest scientific knowledge and continuing the eminently effective features of Chinese medicine in practice. The crisis of 'knowing the why but not the how' demonstrates that, despite rather thoroughgoing scientisation, there are continuing conflicts between the modes of knowing characteristic of Chinese medicine and modern science, which result from the assumed hierarchy of knowing.

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What's in a Name: Zhongguo (Or ‘Middle Kingdom’) Reconsidered

Kwong¹

2015

Hist. J.

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Western writers have long criticized the Chinese term Zhongguo, translated as ‘Middle Kingdom’, for its ethnocentric purport. This article proposes to address this criticism by re-examining salient features of Zhongguo's etymological past. The discussion is divided into two parts. The first part offers an overview of the term's historical usage and argues that contrary to the common view, Zhongguo as applied to the imagined whole of Chinese political and cultural traditions or to any of its discrete period segments had not been employed primarily as an ethnocentric expression but as a simple identity label. The second part revisits a late Qing (c. 1861–1912) episode in which Chinese writers made a rare, if not unprecedented, attempt to dispute and, indeed, to reject the name in light of the foreign criticism. Though their arguments did not, in the end, alter how nationalists named the Chinese nation, these debates revealed a cultural posture that became prevalent as educated Chinese negotiated the crossroads of modernity.

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How China Became the “Cradle of Smallpox”: Transformations in Discourse, 1726–2002

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

Distancing Disease in the Un-black Han Chinese Politic

Distancing Disease in the Un-black Han Chinese Politic

‘Knowing the Why but not the How’: A Dilemma in Contemporary Chinese Medicine

What's in a Name: Zhongguo (Or ‘Middle Kingdom’) Reconsidered

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