Global Circulation of Chinese Materia Medica, 1700–1949

Di Lu is a historian of medicine and modern science. He studied at the University of Kent and University College London, and served as a Thomas Arthur Arnold Fellow, Dan David Scholar, and Zvi Yavetz Fellow at Tel Aviv University. His research explores the transnational history of medicine and natural history, with a specific focus on cross-cultural exchanges of medicinal substances and species between East Asia and the West from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Spread of a Sino-Tibetan Marvel.- 3. The Caterpillar Fungus Travels Overseas.- 4. The Caterpillar Fungus Teases.- 5. New Caterpillar Fungus Emerges and Negotiates.- 6. Conclusion.