气/气联系与中国雾霾危机:来自科学史的注释

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Ruth Rogaski
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本文探讨了中国医学史和科学史上气与气的关系,以阐明当代中国空气污染和雾霾的现状。空气的现代概念在汉语中是用与“气”有关的术语来表达的。然而,在中国的宇宙学和中医中,气是一个复杂的、多价值的术语,有着悠久的历史,与空气没有明确的一对一的对应关系。气在人类和他们的环境之间提供了一种共鸣的超验联系,然而从环境中产生的气的致病形式可能侵入身体,导致疾病和死亡。在19世纪后期,空气作为气体的实验室定义通过“气”一词传入中国,使一些世纪之交的中国医生,如唐宗海,创造性地建立了气和气之间的对应关系,包括气、生命能量,甚至上帝。尽管当代中国人用传统药物来抵御乌麦的影响,但这种与它们超然的、潜在的神圣价值的对应关系在今天似乎是不存在的。通过探索气与气之间的重要空间,本文认为中国科学史对我们如何应对和面对当前的大气危机具有启示意义。
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Air/Qi Connections and China's Smog Crisis: Notes from the History of Science
abstract:This article explores the relationship between qi and air in Chinese medical and scientific history in order to illuminate current approaches to air pollution and wumai (smog) in contemporary China. The modern concept of air is expressed in Chinese using terms related to the word qi. However, qi is a complex, multivalent term with a long history in Chinese cosmology and Chinese medicine and does not hold a clear one-to-one correspondence with air. Qi provided a resonating transcendent link between humans and their environment, yet pathogenic forms of qi arising from the environment could invade the body, causing illness and death. During the late nineteenth century, laboratory definitions of air as gas were introduced to China through the term qi, enabling some turn-of-the-century Chinese physicians such as Tang Zonghai to establish creative correspondences between air and qi that encompassed gas, vital energies, and even God. Such correspondences with their transcendent, potentially sacred valences appear to be unavailable today, even as contemporary Chinese embrace traditional medicines to ward off the effects of wumai. By probing the significant spaces between air and qi, this article suggests that the history of science in China has implications for how we might cope with and confront our current atmospheric crisis.
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