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From Knowledge Transfer to Ideological Change: the Reading and Influence of
Western Medicine Translations in the Late Qing Dynasty

  

  1. School of Literature, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079
  • Online:2023-07-15 Published:2023-08-05

Abstract:

The modernization of Western learning in China began with the spread of Western
medicine, which began to be introduced into China in succession from the end of the Ming
Dynasty, and Western knowledge entered China with the characteristics of “exclusion, contact,
attempt, acceptance and establishment”, which embodies the process of Western learning’s
spread and acceptance in China. The translation of Western medicine is a breakthrough in
the dissemination of Western medicine. Since the late Qing Dynasty, the traditional Chinese
medicine, offificial and scholar-offificial classes have changed the composition of traditional Chinese
knowledge to a certain extent by reading Western medicine translations, and Western medicine
has become the “key” for China to accept foreign culture. From the perspective of book history
and reading history, this paper studies the changes from medical thoughts to social thoughts
after Western medicine translations were read by Chinese people in the late Qing Dynasty

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