Prof. Sean Hsiang-lin Lei Awarded the 2016 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine
The Foundation is pleased to announce that Prof. Sean Hsiang-lin Leiˇ¦s pioneering study entitled Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over Chinaˇ¦s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, 2014) has been awarded the 2016 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. Neither Donkey nor Horse, a major contribution to the history of science and global health, tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for Chinaˇ¦s exploration of its own modernity half a century later. |