Translation at work : : Chinese medicine in the first global age / / edited by Harold J. Cook.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 100
• Author: Globalizing Chinese Medicine in the 17th Century: 'Translation' at Work Brown University),
• TeilnehmendeR: Cook, Harold John,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 100.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

During the first period of globalization medical ideas and practices originating in China became entangled in the medical activities of other places, sometimes at long distances. They produced effects through processes of alteration once known as translatio, meaning movements in place, status, and meaning. The contributors to this volume examine occasions when intermediaries responded creatively to aspects of Chinese medicine, whether by trying to pass them on or to draw on them in furtherance of their own interests. Practitioners in Japan, at the imperial court, and in early and late Enlightenment Europe therefore responded to translations creatively, sometimes attempting to build bridges of understanding that often collapsed but left innovation in their wake. Contributors are Marta Hanson, Gianna Pomata, Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros, Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Margaret Garber, Daniel Trambaiolo, and Motoichi Terada.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Illustrations and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Translating Chinese Medical Ways in the Early Modern Period / Harold J. Cook -- Travels of a Chinese Pulse Treatise: The Latin and French Translations of the Tuzhu maijue bianzhen 圖註脈訣辨真 (1650s–1730s) / Marta Hanson and Gianna Pomata -- Chocolate in China: Interweaving Cultural Histories of an Imperfectly Connected World / Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros -- Rediscovering Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura: The Transformation of Chinese Acupuncture in Japan / Wei Yu Wayne Tan -- Domesticating Moxa: The Reception of Moxibustion in a Late Seventeenth-Century German Medical Journal / Margaret D. Garber -- Epidemics and Epistemology in Early Modern Japan: Japanese Responses to Chinese Writings on Warm Epidemics and Sand-Rashes / Daniel Trambaiolo -- The Montpellier Version of Sphygmology: Classical Chinese Medicine and Vitalism / Motoichi Terada -- Back Matter -- Index.