Gerard Lemos, The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese people fear the future

Editorial 2011-3

The Institutional Transmission of Chinese Medicine: A typology of the Main Issues

 ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to propose a typology of the different issues that the transmission of traditional Chinese medicine encounters today in the world, by successively highlighting ideological, epistemological, political, and educational difficulties. After showing how much the polarised aspect of the debates on Chinese medicine is already entrenched among specialists in this discipline, we explore the question of the epistemological status of this Chinese tradition by confronting it with the dominant biomedicine of Western origin. The originality of Chinese structures that were set up to protect and promote this national tradition is then highlighted as a possible source of inspiration at the international level, before describing the different economic factors likely to play a positive or negative role in the development of this medical and cultural heritage at the local level. Finally, the specific didactic questions that the transmission of this heritage and the teaching of this discipline raise are analysed before presenting a conclusion.

Gladys Chicharro, Le fardeau des petits empereurs: Une génération d’enfants uniques en Chine (The burden of little emperors: A generation of single children in China)