Sean Hsiang-lin Lei
Biographic Data
| ID | 5840995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Hsiang-lin Lei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean Hsiang-lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lei |
| SIGNATURE | LEI S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Dawn of Science as Cultural Authority in China
There is an intriguing puzzle to be found in the historiography of science in modern China: Yan Fu's 嚴復 (1854--1921) Tianyanlun 天演論 (On Heavenly Evolution), which was published in 1898 as the Chinese translation of Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics (1893), is widely celebrated as the most influential book in modern Chinese intellectual history. And yet, this science-based book has received little,—if any,—credit in the history of science. Taki…
Who Is Mr. Science and Why Does He Matter
This special issue is devoted to exploring the manifestations of Mr. Science in May Fourth China and to examining this icon’s significance not only to China’s modern era but also to our understandings of science and society beyond. In this introduction, the co-editors make a case for critically engaging Mr. Science and, by extension, questions of science in early twentieth century China, particularly in light of China’s emergence as a scientific …
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia
This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking and implementation in Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the Yangzi River delta, focusing mostly on towns and villages rather than cities. Whether d…
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Qi-Transformation and the Steam Engine The Incorporation of Western Anatomy and Re-Conceptualisation of the Body in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Medicine
Tang Zonghai (1851–1908), the widely acclaimed proponent of medical eclecticism in the late Qing period, invented the famous formula: ‘Western medicine is good at anatomy; Chinese medicine is good at qi -transformation.’ While it is well-known that Tang coined the concept of qihua 氣化 ( qi -transformation) and thereby created a long-lasting dichotomy between Chinese and Western medicine, it is little known that Tang’s conception of qi -transformat…
A Response to “The STS Challenge to Philosophy of Science in Taiwan”
When Professor Ruey-Lin Chen invited me to respond to an article that he had written partly as a criticism of a few paragraphs in my 2002 article (Lei 2002), I felt both honored and hesitant. I fel
Habituating Individuality
In their endeavor to solve China’s tuberculosis crisis, public health advocates in the 1930s framed tuberculosis as a disease of the Chinese family. Instead of being considered as a social disease, tuberculosis drew people’s attention to the graphic details of personal health habits and the allegedly pathogenic structure of the Chinese family. Focusing on so-called unhygienic habits and on the selective acceptance, abandonment, or innovation of h…
Moral Community of Weisheng
Weisheng, literally “guarding life,” serves as the Chinese translation for the English term “hygiene.” Nevertheless, the respected author of a Chinese textbook on public health from 1934 stated in his preface: “Weisheng is about ‘maintaining health’ and not at all about ‘guarding life.’” When read against the rise of weisheng in Ruth Rogaski's sense of “hygienic modernity” in China during the Republican period, this statement reveals a local and …
How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan
Research Article| May 01 2002 How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (2): 333–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-2-333 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sean Hsiang-lin Lei; How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experienti…
From Changshan to a New Anti-Malarial Drug
This paper investigates the discovery of a Chinese anti-malarial drug, changshan, within the context of the struggle between traditional Chinese doctors and Western-trained doctors in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Drawing on the Latourian conception of socio-technical networks, I argue that the discovery of changshan was in fact a re-networking process. Besides, because Western-style doctors guarded the boundary of their socio-technical network a…
From Changshan to a New Anti-Malarial Drug
This paper investigates the discovery of a Chinese anti-malarial drug, changshan, within the context of the struggle between traditional Chinese doctors and Western-trained doctors in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Drawing on the Latourian conception of socio-technical networks, I argue that the discovery of changshan was in fact a re-networking process. Besides, because Western-style doctors guarded the boundary of their socio-technical network a…
How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan
Research Article| May 01 2002 How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (2): 333–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-2-333 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sean Hsiang-lin Lei; How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experienti…
From Changshan to a New Anti-Malarial Drug
This paper investigates the discovery of a Chinese anti-malarial drug, changshan, within the context of the struggle between traditional Chinese doctors and Western-trained doctors in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Drawing on the Latourian conception of socio-technical networks, I argue that the discovery of changshan was in fact a re-networking process. Besides, because Western-style doctors guarded the boundary of their socio-technical network a…
How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan
Research Article| May 01 2002 How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experiential? The Political Epistemology of Jingyan Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2002) 10 (2): 333–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-2-333 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sean Hsiang-lin Lei; How Did Chinese Medicine Become Experienti…
Moral Community of Weisheng
Weisheng, literally “guarding life,” serves as the Chinese translation for the English term “hygiene.” Nevertheless, the respected author of a Chinese textbook on public health from 1934 stated in his preface: “Weisheng is about ‘maintaining health’ and not at all about ‘guarding life.’” When read against the rise of weisheng in Ruth Rogaski's sense of “hygienic modernity” in China during the Republican period, this statement reveals a local and …
Habituating Individuality
In their endeavor to solve China’s tuberculosis crisis, public health advocates in the 1930s framed tuberculosis as a disease of the Chinese family. Instead of being considered as a social disease, tuberculosis drew people’s attention to the graphic details of personal health habits and the allegedly pathogenic structure of the Chinese family. Focusing on so-called unhygienic habits and on the selective acceptance, abandonment, or innovation of h…
A Response to “The STS Challenge to Philosophy of Science in Taiwan”
When Professor Ruey-Lin Chen invited me to respond to an article that he had written partly as a criticism of a few paragraphs in my 2002 article (Lei 2002), I felt both honored and hesitant. I fel
Qi-Transformation and the Steam Engine The Incorporation of Western Anatomy and Re-Conceptualisation of the Body in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Medicine
Tang Zonghai (1851–1908), the widely acclaimed proponent of medical eclecticism in the late Qing period, invented the famous formula: ‘Western medicine is good at anatomy; Chinese medicine is good at qi -transformation.’ While it is well-known that Tang coined the concept of qihua 氣化 ( qi -transformation) and thereby created a long-lasting dichotomy between Chinese and Western medicine, it is little known that Tang’s conception of qi -transformat…
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia
This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking and implementation in Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the Yangzi River delta, focusing mostly on towns and villages rather than cities. Whether d…
The Dawn of Science as Cultural Authority in China
There is an intriguing puzzle to be found in the historiography of science in modern China: Yan Fu's 嚴復 (1854--1921) Tianyanlun 天演論 (On Heavenly Evolution), which was published in 1898 as the Chinese translation of Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics (1893), is widely celebrated as the most influential book in modern Chinese intellectual history. And yet, this science-based book has received little,—if any,—credit in the history of science. Taki…
Who Is Mr. Science and Why Does He Matter
This special issue is devoted to exploring the manifestations of Mr. Science in May Fourth China and to examining this icon’s significance not only to China’s modern era but also to our understandings of science and society beyond. In this introduction, the co-editors make a case for critically engaging Mr. Science and, by extension, questions of science in early twentieth century China, particularly in light of China’s emergence as a scientific …
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · China (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History of Science and Medicine (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works)