Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China PDF
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This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Reproducing Women This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Reproducing Women Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China Yi-Li Wu UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · LosAngeles · London This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms UniversityofCaliforniaPress,oneofthemost distinguisheduniversitypressesintheUnitedStates, enricheslivesaroundtheworldbyadvancingscholar- shipinthehumanities,socialsciences,andnatural sciences.ItsactivitiesaresupportedbytheUCPress Foundationandbyphilanthropiccontributionsfrom individualsandinstitutions.Formoreinformation, visitwww.ucpress.edu. UniversityofCaliforniaPress BerkeleyandLosAngeles,California UniversityofCaliforniaPress,Ltd. London,England ©2010byTheRegentsoftheUniversityofCalifornia LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Wu,Yi-Li,1965– Reproducingwomen:medicine,metaphor,and childbirthinlateimperialChina/Yi-LiWu. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-0-520-26068-9(cloth:alk.paper) 1. Childbirth—China—History. 2. Women— Medicalcare—History. 3. China—Sociallifeand customs—1644–1912. I. Title. [dnlm:1. ReproductiveMedicine—history— China. 2. Gynecology—history—China. 3. History,Modern1601—China. 4. Metaphor— China. wq11jc6w959r2010] rg518.c6w8 2010 362.198'400951—dc22 2010001036 ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ThisbookisprintedonCascadesEnviro100,a 100%postconsumerwaste,recycled,de-inkedfiber. FSCrecycledcertifiedandprocessedchlorinefree.It isacidfree,Ecologocertified,andmanufacturedby BioGasenergy. This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms To Michael,Rachel,and Emily This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents ListofIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. LateImperialFukeandtheLiterateMedicalTradition 15 2. AmateurasArbiter:PopularFukeManualsintheQing 54 3. FunctionandStructureintheFemaleBody 84 4. AnUncertainHarvest:PregnancyandMiscarriage 120 5. “BornLikeaLamb”:TheDiscourseofCosmologically ResonantChildbirth 147 6. ToGenerateandTransform:StrategiesforPostpartum Health 188 Epilogue:Body,Gender,andMedicalLegitimacy 224 Notes 237 Glossary 311 Bibliography 319 Index 343 This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:52 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:52:52 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Illustrations table 1. MembersoftheChenfamily(1127–ca.1900) 32 figures 1. ApagefromTransmittedSecretsofWomen’sMedicine fromtheBambooGrove(Zhulinfukemichuan),1890 edition 61 2. WomangivingbirthafterprayingtotheBodhisattva Guanyin,LotusSutra(Saddharmapundarikasutra), Dunhuang,ca.tenthcentury 66 3. Titlepage,TreatiseonEasyChildbirth(Dashengbian), ca.1850 80 4. DiagramofinternalorgansfromLiChan,AnIntroduction toMedicine(Yixuerumen),1666edition 102 5. DiagramofinternalorgansfromZhangJiebin,Illustrated Supplementto“TheInnerClassicExplicatedbyTopic” (Leijingtuyi),1624edition 103 6. Instructionsforsafechildbirth,expandededitionof TreatiseonEasyChildbirth(ZengguangDashengpian), 1888 149 7. CharlesBell’sengravingofasoldierwithtetanusfrom TheAnatomyandPhilosophyofExpressionasConnected withtheFineArts,1847edition 195 8. Womansufferingfromabscessesduringthepostpartum period,ImperiallyCompiledGoldenMirrorofMedical Learning(Yuzuanyizongjinjian),1742 198 ix This content downloaded from 218.107.132.55 on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:53:08 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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