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Spices and medicine: From Historical Obsession to Research of the Future

Friday 24th May 2013, 9:30am – 5:00pm, Maplethorpe Lecture Theatre, UCL School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AX.
A one-day UCL conference sponsored by the British Society for the History of Science and London BioNat, exploring Europe’s fascination with spices as both food and medicine and the role of spices in the advancement of global scientific knowledge and medical practices, from ancient times to today. Vivienne Lo (UCL CCHH) and Di Lu (UCL PhD Cand.) will be presenting on 'Scent and Synaesthesia' in China. More...

Published: May 15, 2013 4:56:34 PM

Martial arts film: The Sword Identity

Tuesday 14th May, 6.30pm,  Lecture Theatre 1.03, Malet Place Engineering Building.
Part of the UCL Festival of the Arts

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Published: Apr 8, 2013 6:17:45 PM

China in Latin America

21st  May 2013, 10am-5pm, Room 103, Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PQ.
A one-day international conference.
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Published: Apr 2, 2013 7:09:49 PM

The Benevolent Dragon? An analysis of China's health diplomacy to Africa (1964 – the present)

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 5.30–6.30pm, Bentham SB01 Seminar Room 3.
Transnational history lecture and seminar with Dr Paul Kadetz, Global Health, Arizona School of Health Sciences. More...

Published: Mar 6, 2013 1:30:04 PM

Pharmacology in China

Thursday 28 February 2013, 9–11am, Wilkins Garden Room.
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Published: Feb 26, 2013 6:00:06 PM

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Lecturers

  • The Lecturers for the MA in China: Health and Humanity are all highly regarded experts in their fields. Read more about them here.

Research students

  • David Dear
    Self-cultivation and the formation of identity in Early Modern China
  • Nancy Holroyde-Downing
    Mysteries of the Tongue: the Invention of a Diagnostic Tradition in Chinese Medicine
  • Dolly Yang 楊德秀
    An exploration of the significance of the Daoyin [therapeutic, 'leading and guiding'] exercises in Zhubing Yuanhou Lun 諸病源候論
  • Takaki Nishiyama
    The International Leviathan: The British Imperial Institution and the East Asian Ab-intra States System, 1842-1943
  • Di Lu (beginning 2013)
    The construction of knowledge of fungi in Chinese medicine

Visiting scholars

  • Yan Liu 刘焱, Harvard University
  • Dr Becky Chou 周珮琪, China Medical University, Taiwan

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