The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan

Resistance and Receptivity

“…In the late 1980s, Elizabeth Hsü conducted a research project in Yunnan to evaluate, at different points in this century, popular perceptions of Western medicine and the integration of foreign medicine into the existing body of traditional knowledge (Hsü, 1992). The project, according to Hsü, its author, awaits further research.…”