Seminar

Brain is the Ruler of the Body: The Appearance of Ailuo Brain Tonic and the Changing Concept of Body in Modern China (腦為一身之主:從「艾羅補腦汁」看近代中國身體觀的變化)

Asia/Hong_KongBrain is the Ruler of the Body: The Appearance of Ailuo Brain Tonic and the Changing Concept of Body in Modern China (腦為一身之主:從「艾羅補腦汁」看近代中國身體觀的變化)
    Asia/Hong_KongBrain is the Ruler of the Body: The Appearance of Ailuo Brain Tonic and the Changing Concept of Body in Modern China (腦為一身之主:從「艾羅補腦汁」看近代中國身體觀的變化)
      Overview

      Title:

      Brain is the Ruler of the Body: The Appearance of Ailuo Brain Tonic and the Changing Concept of Body in Modern China (腦為一身之主:從「艾羅補腦汁」看近代中國身體觀的變化)

      Speaker:

      Dr. Ning Chang (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)

      Date:

      September 13, 2010

      Time:

      4:30 pm

      Venue:

      Reading Room, Tang Chi Ngong Building, The University of Hong Kong

      Language:

      Putonghua

      Enquiry:

      (Tel) (852) 2859-2460
      (Email) casgen@hku.hk

      Abstract

      「身體觀」是個模糊的用詞,講者要討論的,是一般大眾對自己對身體的看法,特別是體內器官的職掌與統御關係。1851 年,醫療傳教士合信(Benjamin Hobson)與華人陳修堂合撰《全體新論》,詳論身體各部器官,多與中國固有看法不同,把原先在中國身體觀中無足輕重的「腦」,提到「一身之主」的地位;「心」的功能,則被簡化為製造血液,以運養身體的單位。本演講嘗試通過《申報》與《新聞報》的藥品廣告,探究庶民百姓如何在新觀念的影響下,如何重塑自己對身體的看法。講者主張,西方醫學知識的傳入,固然對知識界造成衝擊,但新身體觀的深入與普及,實有賴於中外藥商的積極參與及推動。

      About the Speaker

      張寧博士畢業於英國劍橋大學,獲哲學博士學位,現任中央研究院近代史研究所副研究員,主要研究興趣為中國近代社會史和商業史,代表著作有:〈是運動還是賭博?:跑狗論述與現代上海的成型,1927 – 1933〉,《中央研究院近代史研究所集刊》第 42 期(2003 年),頁 73-124;〈阿司匹靈在中國:民國時期中國新藥業與德國拜耳藥廠間的商標爭訟〉,《中央研究院近代史研究所集刊》第 59 期(2008 年),頁 97-155; “New British Companies in China: The Case of International Export Company in Hankou, 1907-18”, Studies in Chinese History, No. 8 (1998), pp. 29-63; “Pure Sport or A Gambling Disgrace? Greyhound Racing and the Formation of Modern Shanghai”, in Creating Chinese Modernity: Knowledge and Everyday Life, 1900 – 1940 (N.Y.: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 147-181.

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