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With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world, public health sectors have been placed under the spotlight. We have witnessed growing political interference in recent medical research. In China, where the first known COVID-19 patient was discovered, such interference is particularly notable, shown in the government’s recent active promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatment. Such an official endorsement of TCM provoked wider social debates on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) public health policy, which have gone far beyond the context of public health. The momentum behind the current debate on TCM is engineered by a long-standing, ambivalent Chinese sentiment towards western democracies. This sentiment forges the intersection of political and scientific discourses in Chinese society, which explains how the CCP and people inhabiting different ends of the political spectrum push for their political agenda through medical commentaries.
Author(s): Peng AY
Publication type: Online Publication
Publication status: Published
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Year: 2021
Access Year: 2021
Acceptance date: 07/07/1915
Publisher: The Contemporary China Centre University of Westminster
URL: http://blog.westminster.ac.uk/contemporarychina/why-debates-in-china-about-traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-became-politicised-during-the-pandemic/
