A Global History of Ginseng

Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between East and West.

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Heasim Sul is Professor in the Department of History at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

Inhalt

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Notes

Prologue

PART I

Ginseng Meets the West

1 The Arrival of Korean Ginseng in Europe

2 Ginseng Studies by the English Royal Society and French Royal Academy of Sciences

3 The Discovery of Ginseng in North America

4 The Classification and Medical Use of Ginseng

PART 2

The World-System of Ginseng

5 Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Policies and the Ginseng Trade

6 The East India Company's Private Trade in Ginseng

7 Ginseng, America's First Export Item

8 Ginseng and Circumstances in East Asia

PART 3

Crisis and Response

9 Expunction from Pharmacopoeias?

10 Western Medicine's View of Ginseng's Efficacy

11 Reform of Pharmacopoeias and Challenges to Extracting Active Ingredients

12 Ginseng's Slow Entry into the Modern Pharmaceutical System

13 The Depletion of Wild Ginseng and the Beginning of Cultivated Ginseng

PART 4

The Orientalism Surrounding Ginseng

14 Analogizing and Ostracization

15 Mysterious Orientality

16 Ginseng Diggers in the East and West

17 Ginseng Diggers' Image and Internal Colonialism

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index