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This text looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system in Communist China. The political, economic and social motives which drove this promotion are analyzed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution is fully explored. This text makes a major contribution to the history of Chinese medicine.
Using original sources, this significanttext looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party. The political, economic and social motives which drove this promotion are analyzed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution is fully explored for the first time, making a major contribution to the history of Chinese medicine.
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