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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Wayne Soon, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Description: Today I talked to Wayne Soon about his book Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History (Stanford UP, 2020).In 1938, one year into the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese military found itself in dire medical straits. Soldiers were suffering from deadly illnesses, and were unable to receive blood transfusions for their wounds. The urgent need for medical assistance prompted an unprecedented flowering of scientific knowledge in China and Taiwan throughout the twentieth century. Wayne Soon draws on archives from three continents to argue that Overseas Chinese were key to this development, utilizing their global connections and diasporic links to...