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This course addresses the issue of Chinese modernity through medicine and its relationship with culture, society, and state power up to the post-Mao transformation. It tackles the complexity of modernity - its unique roots, its tumultuous turns, its predicament, and its promise - in the globalized world yet the rising consciousness of its Chinese nature. In roughly three sections - traditional Chinese medicine, psychiatry, and social and cultural history of diseases and governance, this course is in an effort to deepen the link between medical anthropology and history of medicine and science.