Needham Research Institute Series
Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China , 1945-63: A Medicine
of Revolution
Kim Taylor
RoutledgeCurzon
, 2005
ISBN: 0415342953
This book looks at the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal,
side-lined medical practice of the early twentieth century, to an essential
and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese
Communist Party. The political, economic and social motives which drove this
promotion are analysed and the extraordinary role that Chinese medicine was
meant to play in Mao Zedong's revolution is fully explored for the first time.