This week on Sinica, hosts Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser speak with Christina Larson and Ian Johnson to talk about Tu Youyou, the scientist who recently shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of the anti-malaria compound artemisinin, thus making her the first citizen of the People’s Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize in the natural sciences.
Recommendations
- A Guide to the Mammals of China, Edited by Andrew T. Smith, Yan Xie, et al. (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- “Beijing’s Test Tube Baby,” Christina Larson, Foreign Policy, September 29, 2015
- “Can the Chinese Government Get Its People to Like G.M.O.s?” Christina Larson, The New Yorker, August 31, 2015
- “Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis,” Volker Scheid (Duke University Press Books, 2002)
- “Corn Wars,” Ted Genoways, The New Republic, August 16, 2015
- “Follow The Money,” Mike Chinoy, Assignment China, U.S.C. U.S.-China Institute, September 20, 2015
- Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
- “Nobel Renews Debate on Chinese Medicine,” Ian Johnson, The New York Times, October 10, 2015
- “Power of the Placebo,” Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, July/August 2014
- “The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine,” Ted Kaptchuk (McGraw-Hill Education, 2000)