Liz PY Chee
Biographic Data
| ID | 6010367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz PY Chee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz PY |
| FAMILY NAME | Chee |
| SIGNATURE | CHEE L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9465-0773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Medicinal Animals” and Asia
Reinventing Dogs as Medicinal Food in Post-Mao China
Dogmeat eating in China and elsewhere in Asia has been a contentious issue. The most-cited reason for the contemporary consumption of dogs in China is it that it is a deeply embedded tradition related to Chinese medicine. But excepting certain regional and ethnic customs, dogmeat eating only rose to prominence in China in the 1980s and 1990s, accompanying a remedicalization of dogs by a new canine breeding and meat production industry. Dogs were …
Heat, cold and climatic determinism in China’s urban epidemics
‘Thermal governance’ has been discussed elsewhere as the regulation of temperature through infrastructure, technology and social and political organisation. We extend it here to include a subtle and heretofore under-recognised element of public health: the governance of recent urban epidemics by the Chinese state. The SARS epidemic of 2002–2003 in Guangzhou and more markedly the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan triggered massive emergency responses by …
Heat and the city
This special issue focuses on the under-studied but increasingly pressing issue of urban heat. Cities are getting hotter, both due to the global crisis of climate change, and the related phenomena of Urban Heat Islands, which locally amplify increased global temperatures and exposure to solar radiation. We know a great deal about how heat is affecting cities from a scientific and public health perspective. Urban studies scholarship, however, has …
Mao's Bestiary
Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee de…
Introduction
‘To Cure a Hundred Diseases’
This article discusses the practice in Mao-era China of creating new medical ‘therapies’ based on the blood of fowls (chickens, geese and ducks), which were emblematic of an expanded interest in the use of animal tissue in general. The logic and charisma of these practices stemmed from their hybridity: references culled from classical Chinese texts, suggestions taken from Soviet medicine (particularly tissue therapy), identification with the coun…
The Human Proteome and the Chinese Liver
The Human Liver Proteome Project (HLPP) is the largest international scientific research project ever headquartered in China. At the same time, the HLPP is one component of the global Human Proteome Project (HPP), which in 2001–2002 began dividing the organs and systems of the human body between different national laboratories and institutes. Research on the kidney was assigned to Japan, brain research to Germany, liver research to China, etc. On…
Heat, cold and climatic determinism in China’s urban epidemics
‘Thermal governance’ has been discussed elsewhere as the regulation of temperature through infrastructure, technology and social and political organisation. We extend it here to include a subtle and heretofore under-recognised element of public health: the governance of recent urban epidemics by the Chinese state. The SARS epidemic of 2002–2003 in Guangzhou and more markedly the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan triggered massive emergency responses by …
The Human Proteome and the Chinese Liver
The Human Liver Proteome Project (HLPP) is the largest international scientific research project ever headquartered in China. At the same time, the HLPP is one component of the global Human Proteome Project (HPP), which in 2001–2002 began dividing the organs and systems of the human body between different national laboratories and institutes. Research on the kidney was assigned to Japan, brain research to Germany, liver research to China, etc. On…
Introduction
‘To Cure a Hundred Diseases’
This article discusses the practice in Mao-era China of creating new medical ‘therapies’ based on the blood of fowls (chickens, geese and ducks), which were emblematic of an expanded interest in the use of animal tissue in general. The logic and charisma of these practices stemmed from their hybridity: references culled from classical Chinese texts, suggestions taken from Soviet medicine (particularly tissue therapy), identification with the coun…
Mao's Bestiary
Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have been used in Chinese medicine for centuries, Chee de…
Heat, cold and climatic determinism in China’s urban epidemics
‘Thermal governance’ has been discussed elsewhere as the regulation of temperature through infrastructure, technology and social and political organisation. We extend it here to include a subtle and heretofore under-recognised element of public health: the governance of recent urban epidemics by the Chinese state. The SARS epidemic of 2002–2003 in Guangzhou and more markedly the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan triggered massive emergency responses by …
Heat and the city
This special issue focuses on the under-studied but increasingly pressing issue of urban heat. Cities are getting hotter, both due to the global crisis of climate change, and the related phenomena of Urban Heat Islands, which locally amplify increased global temperatures and exposure to solar radiation. We know a great deal about how heat is affecting cities from a scientific and public health perspective. Urban studies scholarship, however, has …
“Medicinal Animals” and Asia
Reinventing Dogs as Medicinal Food in Post-Mao China
Dogmeat eating in China and elsewhere in Asia has been a contentious issue. The most-cited reason for the contemporary consumption of dogs in China is it that it is a deeply embedded tradition related to Chinese medicine. But excepting certain regional and ethnic customs, dogmeat eating only rose to prominence in China in the 1980s and 1990s, accompanying a remedicalization of dogs by a new canine breeding and meat production industry. Dogs were …
China (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works)