Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China

By He Bian, assistant professor of history and East Asian studies

Published Dec. 16, 2019

Pharmacy—both a medical and commercial enterprise—has influenced China’s early modern cultural transformation. In Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China (Princeton University Press), assistant professor of history and East Asian studies He Bian studies pharmacy’s role in Chinese history and argues that it acts as an interplay between elite and popular culture.