Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
Liz P. Y. Chee 追溯中国共产党早期如何系统化利用药用动物——从鸡血疗法到鹿茸和熊胆养殖的起源——以弥补药物短缺、吸引外资并为民间医学赋予科学合法性。STS 视角下的动物身体与国家权力。 Liz P. Y. Chee traces how the early PRC systematized medicinal animal use — from chicken blood therapy to the origins of deer antler and bear bile farming — to compensate for drug shortages, attract foreign investment, and legitimate folk medicine. An STS perspective on animal bodies and state power.
Mao’s Bestiary (Duke UP, 2021) examines how the Chinese Communist state expanded and systematized the use of medicinal animals in the decades following 1949. Chee covers chicken blood therapy during the Cultural Revolution, the establishment of deer antler and bear bile farming, and the influence of Soviet and North Korean veterinary science on Chinese zootherapies. Part of Duke’s “Experimental Futures” series in Science and Technology Studies, the book reveals how animal bodies became objects of scientific knowledge production at the intersection of state power, traditional medicine, and modern pharmaceutical ambition.