Chinese Medicine, Early Japan, and the Appropriation of Knowledge
| Dates: | 17 March 2015 |
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| Times: | 13:00 - 14:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Life Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Mujeeb Khan |
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This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes in length, followed by a period for audience questions (ending before 2pm). All are welcome.
Chinese Medicine, Early Japan, and the Appropriation of Knowledge
Mujeeb Khan (University of Cambridge)
Abstract:
The introduction of numerous Chinese intellectual traditions into Japan, first through the Korean peninsula and then directly from the continent during the Sui and Tang dynasties, played an important role in shaping ancient Japanese culture and would serve as the basis for the development of various disciplines within the nation. Using Chinese medicine in ancient Japan as a case study, this talk focuses on the imagination of medicine by early Japanese scholarship. In particular, it considers what this imagination entailed by identifying how it reveals the nature of appropriation within early Japan and particular aspects of this appropriation. It also touches briefly upon how, perhaps, this might shed further light on the reception of foreign knowledge by civilizations and their subsequent local employment of the ostensibly foreign.
Speaker
Mujeeb Khan
Organisation: University of Cambridge
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