Body, gender, and disease: the female breast in late imperial Chinese medicine [0.03%]
身体、性别与疾病:晚期中华帝国的医学与女性乳房
Yi-Li Wu
Yi-Li Wu
This paper examines the diverse ways in which Chinese medical experts historically gendered breast disease as a female ailment. By comparing representations of the female breast from the "Imperially-Compiled Golden Mirror of Medical Learnin...
Between passion and repression: medical views of demon dreams, demonic fetuses, and female sexual madness in late imperial China [0.03%]
情与欲:试析晚清医学文献中的梦胎、魔产及女疯病症说
Hsiu-fen Chen
Hsiu-fen Chen
This article argues that early Chinese physicians had already related female ailments to their sexual frustration. Moreover, many physicians paid more attention to non-reproductive women – nuns, widows, and unmarried women – as if they we...
Between state power and popular desire: tobacco in pre-conquest Manchuria, 1600-1644 [0.03%]
国家权力与民间需求之间的张力——1600-1644年辽东烟草之传播及其影响
Carol Benedict
Carol Benedict
Tobacco entered Manchuria on the same wave of early modern globalization that brought it from the Americas to other parts of Eurasia in the early seventeenth century. Introduced into northeast Asia sometime after 1600, it began to circulate...
Abortion in late Imperial China: routine birth control or crisis intervention? [0.03%]
晚清中国的堕胎问题:常规避孕手段还是危机应对措施?
Matthew H Sommer
Matthew H Sommer
In late imperial China, a number of purported methods of abortion were known; but who actually attempted abortion and under what circumstances? Some historians have suggested that abortion was used for routine birth control, which presuppos...
Keith McMahon
Keith McMahon