Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China

by Wu Yi-Li and Yi-Li Wu

This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"( fuke ), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260686
• ISBN13: 9780520260689
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"