Asia Healthcare Blog recently agreed on a partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies (CCS). You may have noticed that several of our recent articles have focused on lectures given at various CCS events. We consider ourselves fortunate to have developed this partnership, and we like to think that it partly reflects [...]

Two weeks ago, at the Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, I attended a lecture  by James A. Benn, an Associate Professor in the Social Sciences Department at McMaster University. Mr. Benn’s lecture was titled “Tea and Other Decoctions for ‘Nourishing Life’ in Medieval China,” and it focused on the medieval China’s thriving health remedies market, where [...]