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Hypnosis and Popular Science in Modern China

Synopsis

Relieving illness, quitting smoking addiction, reforming criminals, spy investigation... A hundred years ago, hypnosis swept throughout China and was widely used in military, medical, scientific, industrial, educational, political and other fields, not only for people to entertain the spectacle, but also to be given more tasks of the times.

In the turbulent era of this century of transformation, Western hypnosis was introduced to China through Japan and spread at all levels, teachers and students, policemen, soldiers, businessmen, clerks, psychologists and other characters actively practiced, actively participated in the construction of hypnotic knowledge, academies and folk voices competed with each other, presenting a pluralistic interpretation of "science", but also shaped the scientific and cultural atmosphere at that time. The author points out that the understanding and practice of hypnosis provided the preparation of history, language, system and knowledge for the development of psychology, psychiatry and other fields in The Later Chinese Society; at the same time, in the context of the late Qing Dynasty's salvation and survival, the Chinese people shaped themselves through hypnosis and imagined ideal new people who met the needs of the times.

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Prologue 1 Hypnosis in Polyphonic Vision Huang Kewu

Prologue II Alternative History of Spirituality and Science Wang Wenji

Chapter 1 Introduction

First, the wedge

What is "science"? Whose "science" is it?

Third, the perspective of the history of popular science

Western hypnosis in the sense of popular science

V. Hypnosis and Modern East Asia

6. Arrangement of the whole book

Chapter 2: Surprise and Fear: Hypnosis in Everyday Life

First, the emergence of the electromagnetic view of the body

Second, hypnosis in new publications

Third, the performance of hypnosis

Fourth, the establishment of the training center and the suppression of the government

Ideological Clues: The Rise of Mass Psychology and the Idea of "Suggestion."

Empirical clues: the evidence of criminal events and the reproduction of literature

7. Historical Clues: The Panic of Losing The Soul and Possessing

VIII. Summary

Chapter Three: Institutional Development: Business, Politics, and Science in the Activities of the Hypnotic Society

I. Introduction

Second, the rise of psychotherapy

A brief history of the Hypnotic Society

Fourth, the market operation of the Hypnosis Society

V. The Political Operation of the Hypnotic Society

VI. "Commercial Transactions" and "Reciprocal Exchanges" in Hypnotic Correspondence

7. People and things under the norm

Chapter Four: The Differentiation of Psychological Knowledge: Hypnotic Societies, Spiritual Societies, and Academy Psychology

Second, the spiritual proposition of the Hypnotic Society: "vitality" and "mechanistic" thinking

Competitors in the field of spirituality

Return to the early twin relationship between Psychological and Psychical

The conflict between college psychology and spirituality

A direct dialogue on the New Youth

Seventh, from the perspective of the Scientific Debate, we should think about the relationship between "spirit" and "science."

Chapter V Conclusions

First, compose the polyphony of the history of science in modern China

Second, the division of boundaries, the differentiation of knowledge and the shaping of the self

3. Past and Future

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