The concerns of members of the Global Synergies/Asynergies Working Group extend from macro challenges to the conventional distinctions between Chinese and Western medicine, to micro analyses of the cross-border migration of substances, therapeutics, and understandings of physiological processes. Group members grapple with strategies for writing effective comparative history and are attuned to recent, innovative approaches to global history. Temporally, their research extends from epistemic exchanges between Chinese and European authors and translators in the late imperial period, to investigations of the ways scientization and medicalization shifted the terms and the dynamics of colloquial understandings of diagnosis, illness, and healing, in twentieth century China.
Working group members: Shigehisa Kuriyama, Dagmar Schäfer, Hugh Shapiro, Yijie Huang, Hilary Smith, Stefanie Gänger, Daisy Liang Joan Judge
Please note: there is an overlap between the topics covered in the different working groups and in working group members. While we will continue to debate and interrogate these divisions, they are a way of organizing the different facets of work we will undertake in the project.
Image: “Painting; 繪畫 (Chinese)” British Museum (Stein painting no. 170), © The Trustees of the British Museum, shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Image slightly cropped for this website.
Link to the source website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1919-0101-0-170?selectedImageId=50001