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DESCRIPTION:This paper analyzes how Chinese ideas about tea’s healing pro
 perties fit into Western medicine. It seeks to explain how and why 17th an
 d 18th-century Europeans adopted or refused to incorporate Chinese tea as 
 medicine. It argues that the rise of empirical science as well as race and
  gender factored into European scholars’ decision to whether embrace or 
 denounce tea. Late Ming and Qing China (from 1600 to 1800) monopolized the
  production of tea and the associated medicinal knowledge such as how to m
 ake tea-based remedies. Through transoceanic commercial and religious netw
 orks\, Jesuit missionaries as well as British and Dutch naturalists brough
 t Chinese information and conviction about tea as medicine back to the Atl
 antic World. This body of knowledge was diffused in Western Europe widely 
 through printed texts and prompted different responses among scholars. \n\
 nThere were debates among three groups of European intellectuals over tea
 ’s health benefits. Cosmopolitans such as British translator John Chambe
 rlayne embraced Chinese ideas of tea’s curative effects. Skeptics\, then
 \, did not trust these ideas. Physicians such as Thomas Short studied tea 
 within the Galenic humoral framework and used chemical experimentations to
  observe and determine its medicinal efficacy. Additionally\, the parochia
 l such as British merchant Jonas Hanway were vehemently against the consum
 ption of Chinese tea on the basis of racialized and gendered ideologies. W
 hile the debates went on until the end of the eighteenth century\, the ide
 a of tea as medicine gained a dominant position as the skeptics agreed tha
 t tea had healing properties.
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LOCATION:Room 208 (Seats 40)
SUMMARY:Panacea or pernicious drug: Situating Chinese Tea in Early Modern E
 uropean Medicine - Yiyun Huang
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/LWFY3J/
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