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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is often considered an "experiential medicine." As such, it is seen as in need of conceptual elevation by scientific experiments and theorization, which actualize and undermine scientized forms of TCM. This essay argues that the predicaments of TCM are thoroughly modern and must be understood within the "Modern Constitution" in which the production and proliferation of asymmetries are both constitutive of and obscured by modern knowledge production. This essay dislodges these asymmetries through transdisciplinary engagements with TCM. This transdisciplinary approach, as I will show, allows us to animate the experiential in order to unsettle the relations between the empirical and the conceptual, the concrete and the abstract, and the contingent and the universal. Most importantly, it enables reconsiderations of the experiential and the empirical as conditions for thinking, doing, and being that insist on immanence, move analogously, and travel sideways. Thus, rather than wanting conceptual uplifting, TCM as an experiential medicine could not only work as a critique of the Modern Constitution but also force a conceptual disruption from within by insisting on the empirical as conceptual.

"A doctor of the highest caliber treats an illness before it happens," a seemingly antiquated doctrine in traditional Chinese medicine, is enjoying surging popularity among practitioners in urban China and the United States today. In this essay, I examine how the meanings and contours of traditional Chinese medicine have shifted in recent decades as it is molded into a "preventive medicine" through translocal encounters. From the 1960s and the early 1970s, the emphasis China's socialist health care placed on preventive health among the rural poor shaped the practice of Chinese herbal medicine and especially acupuncture. This version of preventive medicine was also exported to the Third World, which China strove to champion. Since the end of the Cold War and especially during the 1990s, as China strives to "get on track with the world" (specifically, affluent nation-states, especially in North America and the European Union), traditional Chinese medicine has been rapidly commodified and reinvented as a new kind of preventive medicine tailored for cosmopolitan, middle-class lifestyles. The emergence of this radically new preventive medicine resuscitates certain stories of antiquity and continuity, emphasizing that traditional Chinese medicine has always been "preventive" while obliterating recent memories of the proletariat world and its preventive medicine.

This article discusses the viscerality of consumption; in particular, consumption‐as‐eating and consumption‐as‐spending as a set of heterogeneous, contestatory discourses and practices of identity production and subject formation. To do so, I bring together two intersecting events: the Chinese government's ban on wild animal markets during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, and Chinese and European media frenzy over the visit to China by the Spanish football club Real Madrid in the wake of the epidemic. In discussing these events, I pay specific attention to unruly bodies—both human and nonhuman—as consumables and those who consume them. In examining translocal encounters of these unruly bodies, I suggest that, in post‐SARS China, discourses and practices of consumption produce emergent socialities that at once refigure racialized Orientalist tropes and conjure up discrepant neoliberal imaginaries of lifestyle and consumer choice.

This article discusses the viscerality of consumption; in particular, consumption-as-eating and consumption-as-spending as a set of heterogeneous, contestatory discourses and practices of identity production and subject formation. To do so, I bring together two intersecting events: the Chinese government's ban on wild animal markets during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak, and Chinese and European media frenzy over the visit to China by the Spanish football club Real Madrid in the wake of the epidemic. In discussing these events, I pay specific attention to unruly bodies-both human and nonhuman-as consumables and those who consume them. In examining translocal encounters of these unruly bodies, I suggest that, in post-SARS China, discourses and practices of consumption produce emergent socialities that at once refigure racialized Orientalist tropes and conjure up discrepant neoliberal imaginaries of lifestyle and consumer choice.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Many Faces of Global East Asia -- Part One: Global East Asia: Past and Present -- Introduction -- 1. Reluctant Keystone: The Nexus of War, Memory, and Geopolitics in Okinawa -- 2. From Jazz Men to Jasmine: Transnational Nightlife Cultures in Shanghai from the 1920s to the 2010s -- 3. Maoism as a Global Force -- 4. Japanese Development Aid and Global Power -- 5. Conflict and Cooperation in Global East Asia -- Part Two. East Asian Global Cultures -- Introduction -- 6. Hybridity and Authenticity in Global East Asian Foodways -- 7. Trans-Pacific Flows and US Audiences of Korean Popular Culture -- 8. Ai Weiwei and the Global Art of Politics -- Part Three. Education, Science, and Technology -- Introduction -- 9. China, Japan, and the Rise of Global Competition in Higher Education and Research -- 10. The Educational Exodus from South Korea -- 11. From "Wild East" to Global Pioneers: Life Science Developments in East Asia -- 12. A Concise History of Worlding Chinese Medicine -- Part Four. East Asian Mobilities and Diversities -- Introduction -- 13. Of Married Daughters and Caged Chickens: The History and Significations of Being "Chinese" in Southeast Asia -- 14. The Korean Diaspora in the United States -- 15. The Japanese Diaspora in the Americas and the Ethnic Return Migration of Japanese Americans -- 16. Chinese Labor Migrants in Asia and Africa -- 17. Uncertain Choices of Chinese-Foreign Children's Citizenship in the People's Republic of China -- 18 • From Hmong Versus Miao to the Making of Transnational Hmong/Miao Solidarity -- 19. An East Asian Nation without a State: Xinjiang and China's Non-Chinese -- Part Five. The Rise of China and East Asia as the New Center of the World -- Introduction -- 20. Global China's Business Frontier: Chinese Enterprises and the Reach of the State -- 21. Common Destiny in Cyberspace: China's Cyber Diplomacy -- 22. Chinese Correspondents around the World -- 23. Decoupling the US Economy: Preparations for a New Cold War? -- 24. State-Led Globalization, or How Hard Is China's Soft Power? -- Afterword. East Asia: Being There and Being Elsewhere 310 -- List of Contributors -- Index