Article ID: CBB072908346

Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine and Confucianism: Japanese State Medicine and the Knowledge Cosmopolis of Early Modern East Asia (2017)

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This article argues that Chinese state intellectual approaches to medicine significantly influenced the institutional reception of Western medicine in early modern Japan. Confucian-inspired general reforms of government in late eighteenth-century Japan encouraged an increase in state medical intervention, including the introduction of Western medical practices, achieved primarily through the use of transnational Confucian intellectual knowledge apparatuses. Through a sociology of knowledge approach, this article analyzes the links between earlier private-sphere Chinese medical practice, late Chinese imperial state ideas on medicine, and early modern state-led medical Westernization in Japan. The article highlights the role of trans-Asian Confucian ideas, networks and practices in mediating new approaches to technical innovation, including those from the West. The position for Confucianism argued in the article thereby resonates with Bayly’s idea of the early modern information order of India, and Pollock and Ricci’s ideas on cosmopolitan discursive spaces in other parts of Asia.

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Authors & Contributors
Andrews, Bridie J.
Bretelle-Establet, Florence
Chu, Pingyi
Cohen, H. Floris
Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Vera V.
Guo, Shi-rong
Journals
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Publishers
Princeton University
Cambridge University Press
Harvard University Press
Presses Universitaires de Vincennes
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
State University of New York Press
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Western world, civilization and culture
Confucianism
Transmission of ideas
Mathematics
People
Vagnoni, Alfonso
Dai, Zhen
Ding, Fubao
Qian, Daxin
Ricci, Matteo
Takebe, Katahiro
Time Periods
17th century
Medieval
18th century
Early modern
19th century
20th century
Places
China
Europe
Japan
Korea
Greece
Shanghai (China)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Royal Society of London
Imperial University of Peking
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