Lecture on 12th June: Gray’s Anatomy - The first Text-book of Anatomy in Chinese
29. Mai 2018, von AAI Webmaster
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The Department of Chinese Language and Culture and the Hamburger Sinologische Gesellschaft are delighted to invite all interested to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Gao Xi from the Department of History of our partner university Fudan University (Shanghai), who is currently guest professor at our university, on Tuesday, 12th June 2018, 18:00 at Asien-Afrika-Institut, room 123. The title of the lecture is "Gray’s Anatomy: The first Text-book of Anatomy in Chinese".
Gray’s Anatomy is the single most significant textbook on anatomical knowledge in the mid-nineteenth century English medical academies. The first Chinese edition was published in 1881, designated as the only anatomical textbook for the medical school run by the mission society, and in 1885 the first official translation by the Qing government was issued.
Through analysis of Gray’s Anatomy’s several Chinese versions, this lecture discusses how medical missionaries have borrowed terminologies and semantic traditions that were used in Chinese medicine to explain European medicine — from altering and completely abandoning Chinese medical terminologies and relevant knowledge, to establishing new medical terminologies and its configuration, and ultimately remoulding Chinese scholars’ and official system’s understanding of the knowledge of the body.