｜時間：2024.9.19 (四) 10:00-12:00

｜地點：HA314室，陽明交大 光復校區人社一館3F

Along with the normalising of Sino-American relations in the 1970s, the world’s attention to China’s acupuncture anaesthesia stimulated the Kuomintang (KMT) government to emphasise Chinese medicine intensively in Taiwan.

Apart from the human-centred history of acupuncture, by analysing the Chinese medical therapy projects for polychlorinated biphenyl poisonings in the 1980s, this article argues that acupuncture experiment animals, Formosan monkeys, empowered the KMT government in constructing nationhood and pursuing the scientisation of Chinese medicine in Cold War Taiwan.

Those monkeys were critical non-human actors in coproducing the KMT government’s imaginaries of modernity and orthodox China.

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陳柏勳，中醫師、英國曼徹斯特大學科學、技術和醫學史研究中心博士候選人

Po-Hsun Chen is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the University of Manchester, UK. He obtained a Visiting Student Research Collaborator in the History of Science program at Princeton University from February 2024 to May 2024.

He is also a physician trained in biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan. His research interests lie mainly in the history of herbs, particularly the interaction between materials, actors, and regulations in modern society.