A global history of ginseng : imperialism, modernity and orientalism /: imperialism, modernity and orientalism. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Heasim Sul.
• Authors: Sul, Heasim
• Contents: List of figures List of tables Preface Notes Prologue PART I Ginseng Meets the West 1 The Arrival of Korean Ginseng in Europe 2 Ginseng Studies by the English Royal Society and French Royal Academy of Sciences 3 The Discovery of Ginseng in North America 4 The Classification and Medical Use of Ginseng PART 2 The World-System of Ginseng 5 Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Policies and the Ginseng Trade 6 The East India Company’s Private Trade in Ginseng 7 Ginseng, America’s First Export Item 8 Ginseng and Circumstances in East Asia PART 3 Crisis and Response 9 Expunction from Pharmacopoeias? 10 Western Medicine’s View of Ginseng’s Efficacy 11 Reform of Pharmacopoeias and Challenges to Extracting Active Ingredients 12 Ginseng’s Slow Entry into the Modern Pharmaceutical System 13 The Depletion of Wild Ginseng and the Beginning of Cultivated Ginseng PART 4 The Orientalism Surrounding Ginseng 14 Analogizing and Ostracization 15 Mysterious Orientality 16 Ginseng Diggers in the East and West 17 Ginseng Diggers’ Image and Internal Colonialism Epilogue Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 338.17; Ginseng industry -- History; East Asia -- Commerce -- Western countries; Western countries -- Commerce -- East Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000604177; 9781000604146; 9781003286691
• Related ISBNs: 9781032261423; 9781032261416
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