The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism by Robert Culp, and: Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China by Suyoung Son

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-520
Author(s):  
Lucille Chia
Keyword(s):  
Modern China ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Late Imperial China ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Textual Authority ◽  
Imperial China

The Use of Pain in Childbirth Recorded in Chinese Medical Works

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-124
Author(s):  
Margaret Wee Siang Ng
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Medical Work ◽  
Late Imperial China ◽  
Birth Complications ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Birth Attendants ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Imperial China ◽  
Pregnant Mothers

In pre-modern China, midwives and pregnant mothers used pain description as a tool to gauge the progress of childbirth. This was recorded in the twelfth century medical work Shichan lun 十產論 (Ten Topics on Birth), which takes the form of a list, describing routine childbirth, birth complications and the techniques used to manage those specific complications. It was the most widely quoted and disseminated work on childbirth and birth complications in late imperial China. The description of childbirth pain in Shichan lun would shift in meaning and use by the end of the imperial period, leading to the representation of childbirth pain as inevitable, nondescript and immutable. This study examines how pain was a tool for the pregnant woman and birth attendants in Shichan lun. This reading of pain challenges our current understanding of the value and meaning of pain in childbirth physiology.

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Berling ◽  
James Hayes ◽  
Robert E. Hegel ◽  
Leo Ou-fan Lee ◽  
Victor H. Mair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Late Imperial China ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial China
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