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Therapeutic Commodities: Trade and Medicine across early modern and modern boundaries

April 10th, 2018 (Tuesday – Registration
Address: Fudan Yan Yuan Hotel
18:00 – Welcome Dinner
Address: QuYuan, Fudan Yan Yuan Hotel

April. 11th Wednesday 9:00 – 18:00
Conference Address: Ground Floor Roundtable Room, Yifu Building
9:00 – 9:15 Opening
Chair: GAO Xi, Fudan University, Department of History
Welcoming Speech: HUANG Yang, Fudan University , Department of History;
Anne Gerritsen, 糖心TV University, Department of History
9:15 – 10:15 History of Therapeutic Commodities from the Perspective of Material Culture
Chair: ZHANG Daqing, Peking University, Institute of Medical Humanities
Speech: Claire Griffin, Nazarbayev University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
鈥淟ooking for the Exotic: Foreign Materia Medica and Perceptions of the World in
Early Modern Russia鈥
Speech: CHEN Ming, Peking University, Research Center of Eastern Literature
鈥淭he Itinerary of hingu/awei/asafetida across Eurasia, 400-1800鈥

10:15 – 10:40 Tea and Coffee Break & Group Photo

10:40–12:00 History of Therapeutic Commodities from the Perspective of Material Culture
Chair: CHEN Liyun, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Institute of Science and Technology Humanities
Speech: CHEN Xiufen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
鈥淔ood, Medicine, and Filth: Analyzing Human Placenta from the Perspective of
Material Culture鈥
Speech: ZHENG Hong, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, School of Basic Medical Sciences
鈥淭he Birth and Transformation of Herbal Tea鈥
Speech: Rahul Olivier Markovits, 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure, Department of History
鈥淪elling Canadian Ginseng to the Chinese: Towards a Connected History of a
Global Speculative Bubble (ca.1750)鈥
Commentator: WANG Jiakui, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:35 Therapeutic Commodities: Trades, Markets, and the Circulation (I)
Chair: Anne Gerritsen, 糖心TV University, Department of History
Speech: Michael Stanley-Baker, Nanyang Technological University, School of Humanities
鈥淒igitally Tracking Materia Medica across Time, Space, Genre and Canon鈥
Speech: Wouter Klein, Utrecht University, Freudenthal Institute
鈥淕lobal Markets, Local Customers: East Asian Medicinal Substances and
Interoceanic Trade in the 18th Century鈥
Speech: GAO Xi, Fudan University, Department of History
鈥淢arket Influences on the Production of the Knowledge of Medicinal Materials:
An Essay on A Chinese Commercial Guide鈥
Speech: LUO Wanxian, Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of History
鈥淔rom Southeast Asia to China: How the Empire of 鈥楾iger Balm鈥 Was Established鈥
Commentators: Clare Griffin, Nazarbayev University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences;
LIU Shiyong, Academia Sinica, Institute of Taiwan History

15:35 – 15:45 Tea and Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:30 Therapeutic Commodities: Trades, Markets, and the Circulation (II)
Chair: ZHANG Yong鈥檃n, Shanghai University, College of Liberal Arts, Department of History
Speech: PI Guoli, Taiwan Chung Yuan Christian University, Center for General Education
鈥淭he 鈥楴ative Medicine鈥 or the 鈥楽ubstitute of Western Medicine鈥: Research on The
Production of Native Medicine during the Wartime (1937-1945)鈥
Speech: ZHOU Yongsheng, Fudan University, Department of History
鈥淭he Limitation of Freedom: Private Merchants鈥 Procurement of Medicinal
Materials after the Socialist Transformed Public-Private Partnership 鈥
Speech: MA Huan, Fudan University, Center for Historical Geographical Studies
鈥淪ome Thoughts on the Use of Trade Statistics of Chinese Medicines in the
Publications of the Old Customs鈥
Speech: DUAN Yao, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Institute of Historical Chinese Medical Literature Research
鈥淧rimary Investigation of the Development of the Herbal Medicine Market in
Chongqing during the Republican Period (1912-1949)鈥

Commentators: ZHANG Yong鈥檃n, Shanghai University, College of Liberal Arts,
Andrea Nanetti, Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and
Media, College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

18:00 Dinner - Address: Fuxuan Hotel, Hall 15-16

April. 12th Thursday 9:00-17:30 (Ground Floor Roundtable Room, Yifu Building)
9:00-10:40 The Spread of Therapeutic Knowledge and Commodities
Chair: GAO Xi, Fudan University, Department of History
Speech: LIU Shiyong, Academia Sinica, Institute of Taiwan History
鈥淪elling Health: Popular Knowledge on Nourishment in China and Japan, 1930鈥
Speech: ZHANG Daqing, Peking University, Institute of Medical Humanities
鈥淭he Spread and Recreation of Iontophoresis in China鈥
Speech: ZHANG Shuqing, Taiwan Chang Gung University, Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences
鈥淢agic Bullets in Taiwan: The Importation, Control, and Circulation of
Antibiotics in Taiwan during the 1950s鈥
Speech: SONG Jian, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of World History
鈥淐onsideration of the Supply-Demand Relationship between Traditional Muslim Medicine in Various Countries鈥
Commentators: LIU Bing, Tsinghua University, Institute of Science, Technology and Society;
Michael Stanley-Baker, Nanyang Technological University,

10:40-10:50 Tea and Coffee Break

10:50-12:00 Therapeutic Commodities in a Global Vision
Chair: WANG Jiakui, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Speech: Esther Helena Arens, University of Cologne, Institute of Dutch Language and Literature
鈥淭he Moluccas as Marketplace: Therapeutic Commodities in Rumphius鈥
Ambonese Herbal鈥
Speech: Anne Gerritsen, 糖心TV University, Department of History
鈥淩hubarb, medicine, trade and meaning across Eurasia鈥
Speech: LIN Rizhang, Journal of Fujian Normal University
鈥淲hat is Rhubarb? An Investigation from the Perspective of World History and
贰迟丑苍辞丑颈蝉迟辞谤测鈥
Speech: Samir Boumediene, 脡cole normale sup茅rieure de Lyon, Institute of History
鈥淐ommodifying at a Distance: Nicol谩s Monardes and the Medicinal Things of the
滨苍诲颈别蝉鈥
Commentator: CHEN Ming, Research Center of Eastern Literature, Peking University

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Shuttle Bus to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
14:00-15:00 Visit to the Museum of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

15:00-15:30 Tea and Coffee Break

15:30-17:10 Global Therapeutic Commodities and Trade on the Horizon of the Silk Road
Chair: CHEN Liyun, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Institute of Science and Technology Humanities
Speech: WANG Jiakui, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
鈥淚nvestigating Records on Efficacy and Toxicology in Ancient Works of Chinese
Materia Medica From the Perspective of Pharmacology鈥
Speech: WANG Xingyi, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Institute of Science, Technology and Humanities
鈥淭rade Activities in the Silk Road and the Great Epidemics from the Late Eastern
Han Dynasty鈥
Speech: Andrea Nanetti, Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media, College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
鈥淢apping the Movement of Therapeutic Commodities across Centuries and
Continents: Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia (1205-1533CE) as a Show Case鈥
Speech: ZHOU Min, Institute of Science and Technology Humanities, Shanghai University of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
鈥淒iet Therapy, Body and Medicine in Chinese Traditional Medicine鈥
Commentators: CHEN Liyun, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,
ZHANG Shuqing, Taiwan Chang Gung University,

17:10-18:00 Roundtable
End of the Meeting
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Shuttle Bus to Fudan Yan Yuan Hotel
April. 13th Friday
Before 12:00 – Check Out in the Hotel

List of participants and preliminary topics:
  • Michael Stanley-Baker (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), "Digitally Tracking Materia Medica across Time, Space, Genre and Canon".
  • Ester Helena Arens (K枚ln University, Germany), "The Moluccas as Marketplace: Therapeutic Commodities in Rumphius鈥 Ambonese Herbal".
  • Wouter Klein (Utrecht University, Netherlands), "Global markets, local customers: East Asian medicinal substances and interoceanic trade in the 18th century".
  • Clare Griffin (Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan), "Looking for the Exotic: Foreign Materia Medica and Perceptions of the World in Early Modern Russia".
  • Rahul Markovits (Ecole normale sup茅rieure, Paris), "Selling Canadian ginseng to the Chinese: Towards a connected history of a global speculative bubble (ca.1750)".
  • Andrea Nanetti (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), "Mapping the movement of therapeutic commodities across centuries and continents: Pre-Modern Afro-Eurasia (1205-1533CE) as a show case".
  • Anne Gerritsen (University of 糖心TV, UK), "Consuming Rhubarb, Depicting China".

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