Yi-Li Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 7208128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yi-Li Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yi-Li |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor; Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Good Formulas
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered
Reiko Shinno, The Politics of Chinese Medicine under Mongol Rule
A Trauma Doctor’s Practice in Nineteenth-century China
This paper analyses the medical activities of Hu Tingguang, an early nineteenth-century Chinese healer who specialized in treating traumatic injuries. Hu aimed to improve the state of medical knowledge about injuries by writing a comprehensive treatise titled Compilation of Teachings on Traumatology , completed in 1815. This work notably included a set of medical cases describing the experiences of Hu and his father, which Hu used to teach reader…
Body, Gender, and Disease
This paper examines the diverse ways in which Chinese medical experts historically gendered breast disease as a female ailment. By comparing representations of the female breast from the Imperially-Compiled Golden Mirror of Medical Learning ( Yuzuan yizong jinjian , 1742) to those from earlier and contemporary texts, this paper analyzes how breast disease was alternately categorized as an ailment of childbearing and as a disease rooted in patholo…
Reproducing WomenMedicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
"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 shaped people's view…
Reproducing Women
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…
Behind the Silence
Reviewed by: Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion Yi-Li Wu Jing-Bao Nie. Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion. Asian Voices. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. x + 294 pp. $75.00 (cloth, 0-7425-2370-5), $27.95 (paperbound, 0-7425-2371-3). A pervasive Orientalist stereotype is that the Chinese “don’t value human life” as much as “Westerners” do. Variations of this formulation have notably infused English-language accounts…
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts
Reviewed by: Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 Yi-Li Wu Linda L. Barnes . Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 458 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-674-01872-9). This meticulously researched, broad-ranging book presents an eye-opening account of Western encounters with Chinese healing practices in the thirteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries,…
Ghost Fetuses, False Pregnancies, and the Parameters of Medical Uncertainty in Classical Chinese Gynecology
This paper examines the issue of medical uncertainty in Chinese gynecology by analyzing how classical medicine defined and explained different forms of false pregnancy. Besides recognizing that false pregnancies could mimic true ones, Chinese gynecology also recognized that true fetuses could deviate from the normal course of gestation and thus mimic false pregnancies. Therefore, the paper argues that the perceived difficulty of distinguishing be…
The Bamboo Grove Monastery and Popular Gynecology in Qing China
Late Imperial China - Volume 21, Number 1, June 2000
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The Bamboo Grove Monastery and Popular Gynecology in Qing China
Late Imperial China - Volume 21, Number 1, June 2000
Ghost Fetuses, False Pregnancies, and the Parameters of Medical Uncertainty in Classical Chinese Gynecology
This paper examines the issue of medical uncertainty in Chinese gynecology by analyzing how classical medicine defined and explained different forms of false pregnancy. Besides recognizing that false pregnancies could mimic true ones, Chinese gynecology also recognized that true fetuses could deviate from the normal course of gestation and thus mimic false pregnancies. Therefore, the paper argues that the perceived difficulty of distinguishing be…
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts
Reviewed by: Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 Yi-Li Wu Linda L. Barnes . Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 458 pp. Ill. $49.95 (0-674-01872-9). This meticulously researched, broad-ranging book presents an eye-opening account of Western encounters with Chinese healing practices in the thirteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries,…
Behind the Silence
Reviewed by: Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion Yi-Li Wu Jing-Bao Nie. Behind the Silence: Chinese Voices on Abortion. Asian Voices. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. x + 294 pp. $75.00 (cloth, 0-7425-2370-5), $27.95 (paperbound, 0-7425-2371-3). A pervasive Orientalist stereotype is that the Chinese “don’t value human life” as much as “Westerners” do. Variations of this formulation have notably infused English-language accounts…
Reproducing WomenMedicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
"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 shaped people's view…
Reproducing Women
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…
Body, Gender, and Disease
This paper examines the diverse ways in which Chinese medical experts historically gendered breast disease as a female ailment. By comparing representations of the female breast from the Imperially-Compiled Golden Mirror of Medical Learning ( Yuzuan yizong jinjian , 1742) to those from earlier and contemporary texts, this paper analyzes how breast disease was alternately categorized as an ailment of childbearing and as a disease rooted in patholo…
A Trauma Doctor’s Practice in Nineteenth-century China
This paper analyses the medical activities of Hu Tingguang, an early nineteenth-century Chinese healer who specialized in treating traumatic injuries. Hu aimed to improve the state of medical knowledge about injuries by writing a comprehensive treatise titled Compilation of Teachings on Traumatology , completed in 1815. This work notably included a set of medical cases describing the experiences of Hu and his father, which Hu used to teach reader…
Reiko Shinno, The Politics of Chinese Medicine under Mongol Rule
Divine, Demonic, and Disordered
Good Formulas
Medicine (9 works) · China (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Traditional medicine (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works)