The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History

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The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History traces the country'sdevelopment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the presentday and offers an explanation of the collective mentality that enabledChina, confronted by the superiority of Western science and technology, tocommit to the unsparing self-diagnosis that enabled its impressive rise andradical transformation. The country identified the aspects of Western civilizationit must adopt in order to remove the obstacles to its own rebirth,taking a path of reason and renewal.

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examines how China is healing the trauma of history, specifically, the humiliation of repeated Western and Japanese aggression between the Opium War and the end of WWII . . . Unschulds arguments are provocative and idiosyncratic. Recommended. * Choice *
the book can be regarded as an important contribution to the literature which discusses the historical factors and environments which made China behave the way it did. It is also written in a crisp and readable style. The information which the book provides with respect to Chinese medicine and how China worked towards transforming it by absorbing useful ideas from Western medicine is fascinating in itself. * Asian Affairs *
Explores the development of China from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the present day and examines the factors that led to its recent rise and radical transformation. Focuses on China Zhongguo an empire at the center of the world a civilization in free fall and a clash of cultures. * Journal of Economic Literature *

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Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Institute for the Theory, History and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charit Universittsmedizin Berlin and the author of What is Medicine Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing (2009).