Save Traditional Chinese Medicine - The Institutional Traps and Capital Conspiracies Facing Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Lü Jiaguo
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as a treasure of national culture, is gaining increasing attention from people around the world. This book is another masterpiece published by Guangxi Normal University Press following the bestseller "Thinking of TCM," which sold over 100,000 copies. Authored by Lü Jiaguo, the son of Lü Bingkui, former director of the TCM Department of the Ministry of Health, the book aims to expose the institutional traps TCM has faced in modern times and the capital conspiracies it still confronts today, allowing us to glimpse the true reasons behind the sharp decline in the number of TCM practitioners over the past century and the long-term marginalization of TCM academia. The negative attitude toward TCM is often not derived from a rigorous value critique but rather from first labeling tradition as "old culture" from the perspective of time, followed by a series of arguments that serve only to negate. Yu Yunxiu's advocated "medical revolution" is, in fact, deeply connected to the myriad "literary revolutions," "social revolutions," and "cultural revolutions" of the 20th century. Beneath the surface of conspiracies, we are unaware of the ferocity beneath, which is a manifestation of the decline in cultural intelligence. Therefore, when competition faces us, we often become numb. So, let's start here and take a look at a capital conspiracy. In the early days of the founding of New China, under circumstances where it was possible to avoid capital conspiracies, our understanding lagged behind. What we should reflect on is: What exactly has so deeply blinded the cultural intelligence of our national culture? In fact, more often than not, there is no clear adversary deceiving us. Our enemy comes precisely from within—our hearts, which have been deceived by distant capital conspiracies. The negative attitude toward TCM is often not derived from a rigorous value critique but rather from first labeling tradition as "old culture" from the perspective of time, followed by a series of arguments that serve only to negate. Yu Yunxiu's advocated "medical revolution" is, in fact, deeply connected to the myriad "literary revolutions," "social revolutions," and "cultural revolutions" of the 20th century. Beneath the surface of conspiracies, we are unaware of the ferocity beneath, which is a manifestation of the decline in cultural intelligence. Therefore, when competition faces us, we often become numb. So, let's start here and take a look at a capital conspiracy. In the early days of the founding of New China, under circumstances where it was possible to avoid capital conspiracies, our understanding lagged behind. What we should reflect on is: What exactly has so deeply blinded the cultural intelligence of our national culture? In fact, more often than not, there is no clear adversary deceiving us. Our enemy comes precisely from within—our hearts, which have been deceived by distant capital conspiracies.