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Summary. This article sets out to give an account of changes to the map of the history of Chinese medicine in the last 20 years. Concentrating mainly on English language secondary sources, it charts shifting aspirations for social history of medicine in China, the impact of anthropology and the ten- sions between local and large-scale histories. On the one hand, there is a focus on cultural difference, and the articulation of unique styles of perception, where practitioner historians are seen to have an advantage. On the other, historians of China are shown to be facing the challenge of writing in a global context. The paper acknowledges the importance of the transmission of knowledge and practice across social, cultural and geographical boundaries as well as through time. In this article, I update the map of the history of Chinese medicine for the last 20 years. Given the majority readership of this journal, I begin mainly with the historians writing in the English language, with heartfelt apologies to the majority world. My task, as I see it, is not just to account for the shifting boundaries of the subject, but to give an intimate interpretation of it - whether that be in a close personal account of experiences in the field, in new self-reflective accounts written by practitioners or by those articulating the most intimate sensory experiences of life in pre-modern China. Simultaneously, and almost paradoxically, I address the new demand for writing in a global perspective, acknowledging the importance of the transmission of knowledge and practice across social, cultural and geographical boundaries as well as through time. During the last 20 years, new primary resources and changing methodological priorities have challenged historians of the healing arts of China with many problems of definition and approach, and highlighted the need to break out of artificial constraints around the subject. Social historians of medicine, by questioning the appropriate domain of medicine and the authoritative voice of the doctor, have prepared the way for new approaches to the rise and reach of a modern 'scientific' medicine in Asia and, latterly, the pre-modern

But is it [History of] Medicine? Twenty Years in the History of the Healing Arts of China