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Chinese National Salvation Struggle Of The Republic Of China And Meiji Japan Kampo Medicine For National Salvation Struggle Comparative Study

Posted on:2008-10-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2204360212988839Subject:TCM History and Literature
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Historically, Chinese traditional medicine and Japanese Hanfang medicine went through a catastrophe, which were prohibited by government. In the period of Ming-zhi modernization, the regulatory reason of Hanfang medicine is that the mightily westernized reform politics, such as making a country rich and strong, becoming civilized, and property and prospering estate. Although the group of Hanfang medicine had organized the fight of saving itself from extinction for about twenty years, the motion still ended up in a failure. As a result, Japan became the country, which suffered from the most exhaustive elimination of traditional medicine in the course of westernization. From the period of the neo-republic government, Chinese medicine was also prohibited by government for about thirty years, because of the supplant politics towards traditional medicine education. Under the uninterrupted impingement of western civilization, such as new-school, new-medicine, the bearcat of Chinese medicine rose up to struggle and successfully protected their fruit, making it avoid the fate of Japanese Hanfang medicine.Simply pondering over the historical facts and result of self-saving struggle of these two medicines, we can find that the annihilation of Hanfang medicine is the disastrous result of executing the power politics of destroying the tradition and prospering the Western. However, deeply investigating the characteristic of Japan's learning and absorbing the other civilization during the period of Tang dynasty, and relating to the losing of Hanfang medicine Ming-zhi period, we can find that the extinction of Hanfang medicine is not in a moment. From Jianghu period to Ming-zhi period, western philosophy and natural science were gradually proved to be the effective civilization, and then they surmounted the historical stage of Ming-zhi modernization with the help of Ming-zhi government. These sufficiently embody the feature of Japan, which is quickly learning and transplanting other civilization, however, in the same time, Hantang civilization as the lagging civilization was eliminated through selection and competition. Based on the certain, the fragility and helplessness of Hanfang medicine was visualized. Compared with Chinese traditional medicine in the period of republic, the Chinese traditional medicine which rooted in the millennium Chinese traditional civilization, bursted out its unprecedented energy in the historical background of crazily prohibiting. In the course of controversy between Chinese traditional medicine and western medicine and interior of Chinese traditional medicine, Chinese medicine unceasingly seeks for reform and doggedly fights with the force of anti- Chinese medicine. Under this course of trying to flawless and developing Chinese traditional medicine, Chinese traditional medicine guarded its legitimacy status in the national medical treatment system, which did not make itself encounter the fate of Hanfang medicine. Through the historical facts comparation between these two traditional medicines during their own self-saving periods, and western medicine struggle and the locus of gradually learning western, This article investigates the declining reason of Hanfang medicine, by means of this aspect, to declare publicly the future of Chinese traditional medicine.In addition, from another culture aspect- calligraphy, this article will analyze and hunt the trend and characteristic of Japan learning Han-nation civilization. In this chapter, I will briefly analyze the time span of Japan learning calligraphy, as well as on the basic of the absence of character culture before Tang-dynasty, the abuse of Japan absorbing this culture. Meanwhile, from the different attitude towards the same products of a culture, we can understand that the trend and mode of Japan learning Han-nation civilization. Meanwhile, in accordance with two aspects, we can investigate the declining reason of Han civilization and Hanfang medicine by Dahe-nation.This article mainly includes: First, generally describing and comparing the two different historical events and backgrounds. Second, analyzing and comparing the academic debate of Hanfang medicine in the period of Ming-zhi period and the academic debate of Chinese traditional medicine in the period of public. Third, analyzing the different results of Chinese traditional medicine and Japanese Hanfang medicine. Fourth, epilogue.
Keywords/Search Tags:The Republic of China's Chinese medicine, Japanese Hanfang medicine, Ming-zhi Modernization, Comparative study, Saving traditional medicine from extincetion
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