Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South Mark Wigley On top of all that

On top of all that

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A landmark publication when it first appeared in 1958

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Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South Mark Wigley On top of all thatIn the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nations 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. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic