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Birth is a miracle—despite recent advances and clarification of medical facts, such as a growing knowledge of the female body and foetal development phases, and despite the invention of new medical technologies. While I am writing these lines as a Western academic woman who is personally, practically, and academically involved in teaching Chinese medicine to midwives and in learning about perceptions of pregnancy, birth, and childbed among Chinese women in Germany, I keep wondering about whether women from China, the Phillippines, or from Morocco would perceive of birth in the same way as I do—or which meaning would be ascribed to a ‘miracle’ in their own language. As a sinologist, anthropologist, and lecturer in Chinese medicine in obstetrics in Berlin, it is both fascinating and paramount to remain aware of and recognise the differences among the views on what is often perceived as a ‘general biological fact’ and a ‘universal human experience’ of pregnancy, childbirth, and childbed. In our vocational courses we almost exclusively train midwives.1 Those who come to us in Berlin to learn about Chinese medicine often work outside of clinics and hospitals, i.e., at birthing women’s private

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What is a Good Birth? Experiences from Teaching German Midwives Chinese Medicine and Doing Medical Anthropological Research with Chinese Women During Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Childbed in Berlin