Abstract
When many historians of medicine think of China, the first thing that comes to mind is traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Yet the dominant form of medicine in China today is Western medicine (xiyi), and TCM as practiced in China has adopted many concepts and therapies from biomedicine. In other words, biomedicine is by far the most important form of medicine in China, as can be seen in the decline of interest in TCM medical schools, or in the biomedical analysis of an ancient Chinese drug that resulted recently in a Nobel Prize for Tu Youyou. Yet although digital sources for scholars and students of the history of medicine in the US and Western Europe are widely available in most research libraries, sources for the history of medicine in China have lagged behind.
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