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SUMMARY:Live\, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socializ
 ed self across the Ming-Qing transition - He Bian (Princeton University)
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DESCRIPTION:Medical recipes (_fang_) have featured centrally in the 'art o
 f living' popular among the educated elite during the Ming dynasty (1368
 –1644). Previous literature has highlighted the lavish attention to mate
 rial objects and luxury goods among late Ming literati as result from the 
 rise of global trade and money economy\, seeing the popularity of expensiv
 e remedies as integral to the monetization of literati subjectivity. In th
 is talk\, I argue that the spectre of social welfare has always haunted th
 e self-centered discourse of the Chinese art of living\, even during an er
 a when the imperial government abandoned earlier efforts to regulate medic
 al practice. Through a closer look at how medical recipes were collected\,
  transmitted\, and published throughout the seventeenth century across the
  tumultuous dynastic transition\, I trace the re-emergence of sociality in
  medical discourses as expressed through the phrase 'longevity for the wor
 ld' (_shoushi_).
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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