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Author Schonebaum, Andrew, 1975-

Title Novel medicine : healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China / Andrew Schonebaum.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 283 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series A Robert B. Heilman Book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-280) and index.
Summary "Printed novels, guides to daily life, and practical medical texts were relatively new in sixteenth-century China, but they quickly became popular and influential. Novel Medicine shows how fiction shaped and was shaped by medical discourse and how it popularized practical, vernacular kinds of knowledge. A vibrant exchange among literary, commercial, and medical spheres resulted in a web of texts that produced distinct genealogies of romantic and sexual disease, iconographic lineages of heroic doctors, and medicalized attitudes toward reading. Novel Medicine interrogates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge. Conversely, it demonstrates how practical medical texts employed literary devices and figurative strategies to propagate information. Employing interdisciplinary strategies, it examines the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine as well as their representations of illnesses and healers. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts, as well as sources such as fiction commentary, criticism, medical manuscripts, newspapers, essays, print images, and biographies inform an understanding of the body in early modern China. These readings also provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus on the 'literati' aspects of the novel, showing that these texts were not merely read, but were used by a wide variety of readers and for a range of purposes. This inquiry into the intersections of kinds and sources of knowledge--fictional and real, elite and vernacular--illuminates the history of reading and daily life and challenges us to rethink the nature of Chinese literature"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Beginning to read : some methods and background -- Reading medically : novel illnesses, novel cures -- Vernacular curiosities : medical entertainments and memory -- Diseases of sex : medical and literary views of contagion and retribution -- Diseases of Qing : medical and literary views of depletion -- Contagious texts : inherited maladies and the invention of tuberculosis -- Chinese character glossary.
Note Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Language English.
Subject Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- History and criticism.
Chinese fiction -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism.
Healing in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Medical literature -- China -- History.
Literature and society -- China -- History.
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
Popular culture -- China -- History.
Knowledge, Sociology of -- History.
Medicine in Literature
Reading -- history
Medical Writing -- history
China
Roman chinois -- 1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming) -- Histoire et critique.
Roman chinois -- 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing) -- Histoire et critique.
Guérison dans la littérature.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Maladies dans la littérature.
Médecine -- Documentation -- Chine -- Histoire.
Littérature et société -- Chine -- Histoire.
Livres et lecture -- Aspect social -- Chine -- Histoire.
Culture populaire -- Chine -- Histoire.
Sociologie de la connaissance -- Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Books and reading -- Social aspects
Chinese fiction
Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty
Diseases in literature
Healing in literature
Knowledge, Sociology of
Literature and society
Medical literature
Medicine in literature
Popular culture
Qing Dynasty (China)
China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
Literatur
Chinesisch
Medizin Motiv
Chronological Term 1368-1912
Indexed Term Asian history
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Novel medicine. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016] 9780295995182 (DLC) 2015038296
ISBN 9780295806327 (ebook)
029580632X
9780295995182 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0295995181
Standard No. 40025856737
AU@ 000057100130
DEBSZ 489853633
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999932329005765

 
    
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