. Examines and questions discourses surrounding the adjective ‘East Asian’ in the global domains of spirituality and healthcare in the post-1970s; . Offers a wealth of original case studies on the transnational circulation and amalgamation of therapeutic techniques associated with (and imagined within) an East Asian cultural sphere; . Presents scholarly work and examines a plethora of original sources for the first time in the English language In the context of modern global exchanges, an imagined and essentialised notion of ‘East Asia’ has served as both a source of inspiration and a catalyst for new connections, extending beyond the geographic boundaries of China, Japan, and Korea. This volume explores the global circulation of practices, technologies, and ideas identified as ‘East Asian’ in alternative therapies and spiritual practices since the 1970s. Case studies range from the incorporation of traditional Chinese medicine into Brazilian naturopathy to self-development seminars promoting Korean national identity. Rather than focusing on questions of authenticity, the book uniquely interrogates how and why the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea have been invoked over the last fifty years to promote specific therapeutic, spiritual, and political agendas worldwide.
List of figures and tables, Acknowledgements, Note on naming, use of
italics and other conventions,Therapy, Spirituality and East Asian
Imaginaries: An Introduction, Section 1: Circulation of 'East Asian'
Concepts,
Chapter 1: How Qi Became Energy: Parapsychology, Soviet Science and
Chinese Acupuncture in the 1970s,
Chapter 2: Finding Kyo in Shiatsu Spaces:
Sensing the Global Movement of Embodied Knowledge,
Chapter 3: Capturing the
Moment of Kimochi-ii: Transnational Flows and the Transformation of Qigong in
Japan, Section 2: Circulation of Therapeutic Narratives,
Chapter 4:
Five-Element Acupuncture in 1960-80s Britain: In Pursuit of Alternative
Treatment with Body-Mind-Spirit,
Chapter 5: From Eden to Aquarius: 'Oriental
Medicine', Natural Healing and the Market of Self-Care Books in Brazil in the
1970s,
Chapter 6: Buddhist Self-Help Healing Narratives and the Meditative
Turn, Section 3: Alternative Therapies Across Epistemic Fields and
Professions,
Chapter 7: A Collaboration Between Mother and Baby: Sophrology
in a Japanese Maternity Clinic and the Making of Medical Knowledge,
Chapter
8: The Influence of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Brazilian Naturology,
Chapter 9: Constructing a Modern Esoteric Buddhist Breath Therapy, Section 4:
Alternative Therapies and National Identities,
Chapter 10: Ki Sury.n in South
Korea: Reclaiming the Term Pigwahakch.k (Unscientific) to Challenge
Scientific Supremacy,
Chapter 11: Nationalism and the Legitimacy of
Traditional Chinese Medicine in Macau: Colonial Legacy and Contemporary
Imaginaries.
Ioannis Gaitanidis is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University (Japan). He is the author of Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (2022). Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira is a D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. He is a global historian of science, medicine, and religion in China, with extended interests in the histories of psychology and alternative medicine in modern East Asia and South America. Avery Morrow is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Brown University. His research broadly covers new religious movements and occultism in Japan from 1868 through the present day. He is currently finishing a major research project on the integration of a popular faith healing movement into modern Shinto ideology. Sangyun Han is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University. Her research focuses on the history of modern Japanese religion, especially the relationship between the Occult Boom of the 1970s and Japanese esoteric Buddhism. She has recently published Historicizing the (Oc)cultic Milieu: Mikky. in 1970s Japan (Religious Studies in Japan volume 7, 2024).
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