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Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China

Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China angela ki che leung 110 RECENT TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF MEDICINE FOR WOMEN IN IMPERIAL CHINA by ANGELA KI CHE LEUNG (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica) Strictly speaking, women and medicine in Chinese history is not an entirely new field. Historians of Chinese medicine trained during the first half of the twentieth century such as Xie Guan 謝觀 (1880-1950), Fan Xingzhun 范行準 (1906-98), and Zhao Pushan 趙璞珊 (1926- ), who had great influence on subsequent generations of historians of medicine in China, already traced the development of “medicine for women” in their classic works on the general history of Chinese medicine. 1 Both Fan and Xie described the development of medicine for women in the Sui-Tang period, and Xie, in particular, provided a short, clear, and typically insightful historical development of what he called nüke xue 女科學 (learning on medicine for women), from Tang dynasty Zan Yin 昝殷 (ninth century) to Qing experts, quoting major works and their characteristics. Zhao Pushan, a specialist in the history of Chinese pediatrics and Song-Yuan medicine also substantially quotes Tang works on obstetrics and points out pertinently that the landmark innovation of Song works on fuke 婦科 (gynecology) was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NAN NÜ Brill

Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China

Leung, Angela Ki Che
NAN NÜ , Volume 7 (2): 110 – Jan 1, 2005
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angela ki che leung 110 RECENT TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF MEDICINE FOR WOMEN IN IMPERIAL CHINA by ANGELA KI CHE LEUNG (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica) Strictly speaking, women and medicine in Chinese history is not an entirely new field. Historians of Chinese medicine trained during the first half of the twentieth century such as Xie Guan 謝觀 (1880-1950), Fan Xingzhun 范行準 (1906-98), and Zhao Pushan 趙璞珊 (1926- ), who had great influence on subsequent generations of historians of medicine in China, already traced the development of “medicine for women” in their classic works on the general history of Chinese medicine. 1 Both Fan and Xie described the development of medicine for women in the Sui-Tang period, and Xie, in particular, provided a short, clear, and typically insightful historical development of what he called nüke xue 女科學 (learning on medicine for women), from Tang dynasty Zan Yin 昝殷 (ninth century) to Qing experts, quoting major works and their characteristics. Zhao Pushan, a specialist in the history of Chinese pediatrics and Song-Yuan medicine also substantially quotes Tang works on obstetrics and points out pertinently that the landmark innovation of Song works on fuke 婦科 (gynecology) was

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