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This article pays tribute to Nathan Sivin, a scholar of Chinese science, medicine, and religion. Sivin challenged mainstream views and emphasized the need for historical context and evidence-based research in the study of Chinese history. He believed in a more nuanced understanding of Chinese traditions and collaborated with Joseph Needham on the Science and Civilisation in China project. Sivin's work aimed to complicate and expand the understanding of Chinese knowledge and practices in their historical and cultural contexts. The article also discusses Sivin's interests in seal carving, his collection of Chinese and Japanese scrolls, and his extensive library, which is now preserved at the University Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. [Extracted from the article]

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This paper focuses on Chinese sources suggested for a narrative medicine (NM) program, called AfterWards. Dr Lauren Small established AfterWards in 2014 and has been coordinating it since out of the Pediatrics Department at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In early 2019, she started giving a series of lectures and workshops about AfterWards to Chinese medical educators and clinicians in Beijing and Shanghai. She created an AfterWards Facilitator's Guide based on Western-language sources for workshop participants. She also started to organize with Jiang Yuhong (Peking Union Medical College) a workshop for Chinese colleagues to be held at Johns Hopkins Medicine in October 2019. They invited the author to participate. The idea was hatched then to develop Chinese source materials following the AfterWards structure for an updated Facilitator's Guide that Dr Small had initially written. A typical one-hour AfterWards session consists of a specific five-part structure: a literary text or artwork, an associated theme, discussion topics, a writing exercise, and shared reflection. While the content of the program always changes from session to session, the basic structure remains the same. This paper summarizes the types of Chinese sources and their related narrative-medicine themes that were originally selected for inclusion in the updated AfterWards Facilitator's Guide intended for Chinese colleagues. These sources about coping with sick family members, aging, and illness ranged from the textual (classical Chinese poems on aging and diagnostic forms for training students) and visual (premodern Chinese paintings and murals of medical encounters) to the fictive (novels) and performative (contemporary Asian-American film in English and Chinese-language film and documentaries). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the pedagogical forum. For our launch of this new format, forum editors Zanolini and Hanson invited a range of scholars and practitioners teaching East Asian medicine within diverse institutional contexts to contribute. Their different approaches to teaching can be more broadly applied to any medical tradition in Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]