Abstract
As early as the 1930s, certain European scholars had already started to focus their attention on the as a crucial category of cultural historiography.1 This particular focus on the was mainly generated by these scholars' insight into the shortcomings of political and economic structural history in the investigation and subsequent restructuring of social changes. The focus of research gradually shifted from man as a trans-historical fictive stereotype to the as the new historical category, i.e., only by placing the body as a spatio-temporal category in the centre of our research can we acquire deeper insights into historical change which has significantly shaped lives.2 I do not intend to discuss the wider field of research on the body, since this would mean discussing every existing field of study within the cultural-historical field. Instead I am going to focus on just one single aspect of the history of the body which is related to both the history of translation and the history of expertise, i.e., medical discourses on the body. This particular aspect is also linked to cultural transfer and the history of the early missionaries in China.
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