{"product_id":"gathering-medicines-nation-and-knowledge-in-chinas-mountain-south-9780226763651","title":"Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China's Mountain South","description":"In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to \"salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate\" folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. \u003ci\u003eGathering Medicines\u003c\/i\u003e bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic traditions of southern China. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over a period of six years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai worked with seven minority nationality groups in China's southern mountains, observing how medicines were gathered and local healing systems codified. \u003ci\u003eGathering Medicines\u003c\/i\u003e shares their intimate view of how people understand ethnicity, locality, the body, and nature. This ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China is a testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Farquhar\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eA Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAppetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eLili Lai\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of anthropology at the School of Health Humanities, Peking University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHygiene, Sociality, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uncanny New Village\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378138878226,"sku":"9780226763651","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c6b58f4-1171-4773-812b-07fb25c5527f.jpg?v=1728642703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gathering-medicines-nation-and-knowledge-in-chinas-mountain-south-9780226763651","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}