ABSTRACT
In tracing the history of neuroscience in the United States thus far, foreign roots have been examined by looking eastward to events and the traffic of scientists across the Atlantic Ocean. Redirecting our focus toward the opposite longitudes, as did a far-sighted American philanthropy – the Rockefeller Foundation – it is rewarding to examine China’s place in the furtherance of early 20th-century U.S. neural sciences. The vivid experience of H.-T. Chang described in Chapter 4 is an example. Additional, often overlooked instances of transpacific relationships in biomedicine are found in the book, Western Medicine in a Chinese Palace, by John Z. Bowers (1972), the source of much of the following details.
