Tu Youyou and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, we are delighted to present a show on Tu Youyou, the Chinese scientist who recently shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of the anti-malaria drug Artemisinin, thus making her the first citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel science award. Recommendations: Beijing’s Test Tube Baby, by Christina Larson http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/29/beijings-test-tube-baby-china-science-zhao-bowen-bgi-start-up-gene-mapping-dropout/ Jeremy Goldkorn Nobel Renews Debate on Chinese Medicine, by Ian Johnson http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/world/asia/nobel-renews-debate-on-chinese-medicine.html?_r=0 A Guide to the Mammals of China, by Andrew T. Smith and Yan Xie http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Mammals-China-Andrew-Smith/dp/0691099847 Ian Johnson Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine and the Struggle over China’s Modernity, by Sean Hsiang-lin Lei http://www.amazon.com/Neither-Donkey-nor-Horse-Weatherhead/dp/022616988X Christina Larson Why Nothing Works, by Eric Vance http://discovermagazine.com/2014/julyaug/14-why-nothing-works Corn Wars, by Ted Genoways http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122441/corn-wars Kaiser Kuo Can the Chinese Government Get its People to Like G.M.O.s?, by Christina Larson http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/can-the-chinese-government-get-its-people-to-like-g-m-o-s Follow the Money, by Mike Chinoy http://china.usc.edu/assignment-china-follow-money David Moser The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine, by Ted Kaptchuk http://www.amazon.com/The-Web-That-Weaver-Understanding/dp/0809228408 Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis, by Volker Scheid http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Medicine-Contemporary-China-Plurality/dp/0822328720 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynica podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, coming to you from the pop-up Chinese studio here in Beijing.
0:15.6	I'm Kaiser Guo, joined in the studio by David Moser, academic director of the CET program here in Beijing.
0:21.1	How are you, David?
0:21.9	Great.
0:22.6	And via Skype from Nashville, Tennessee by the notorious team, me, aka Jeremy Goldcorn,
0:28.0	the man behind Danway.com.
0:29.5	How is it going there, Jeremy?
0:31.5	I'm doing very, very well indeed, Kaiser.
0:33.8	Thank you.
0:34.4	Good to hear your voice.
0:36.0	I'm good, man.
0:36.6	It was good to have you back in Beijing for that while.
0:38.3	It was nice.
0:39.3	It was very nice to be back in Beijing.
0:41.3	Indeed.
0:42.3	Well, so as surely all of our listeners know, the scientist Tuyo-yo has won the 2015 Nobel Prize
0:49.3	awarded for physiology or medicine.
0:51.3	This was, as you're also all doubtless aware, the first time that a science
0:56.1	Nobel has been given to a Chinese national. Of course, there have been ethnically Chinese
1:00.2	scientists who've won in the past, but... Many.
1:04.3	Many. Quite a number.
1:06.7	But no PRC citizens, at least not in science.
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