TCM and the Black Panthers: Chinese medicine and its American history goes under the spotlight in New York exhibition

Apart from acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is not well known in the US, and its use is generally limited to the country’s Chinese communities. But as “Chinese Medicine in America: Converging Ideas, People and Practices”, a new exhibition at New York’s Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA) shows, it has a history in the country that dates back to the 18th century. TCM came to the New World with Chinese immigrants who started arriving in the Americas...

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