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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA SCIENTI?C MEDICINE IN MOTION HISTORICISING THE CATERPILLAR FUNGUS THE SPREAD OF A SINO-TIBETAN MARVEL SINO-TIBETAN ORIGINS AS A PRODUCT AS A MARVEL AS A MEDICINE CONCLUSION THE CATERPILLAR FUNGUS TRAVELS OVERSEAS DEBUTING IN FRANCE VIA THE JESUIT MISSION JOINING BRITISH NETWORKS OF NATURAL KNOWLEDGE ENCOUNTERING MEDICAL CONCERNS OF RUSSIANS SPREADING EASTWARD TO JAPAN THE CATERPILLAR FUNGUS TEASES A WONDER NO MORE? NEW TAXONOMIC IDENTI?CATIONS NEW MEDICAL REPRESENTATIONS CHANGES IN JAPANESE PERCEPTIONS NEW CATERPILLAR FUNGUS EMERGES AND NEGOTIATES LOCATING A SCIENTI?C CATERPILLAR FUNGUS INVITING SCIENTI?C INQUIRY DOMESTIC CIRCULATION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF MEDICAL REFORM BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE CHAPTER INTRODUCTION DURING THE WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN STUTTGART, GERMANY IN AUGUST 1993, THREE CHINESE WOMEN RUNNERS WON THREE GOLD MEDALS IN THE 1500-METRE, 3000-METRE AND 10,000-METRE EVENTS 1 REFUTING THE ACCU- SATION OF DRUG-TAKING, THE CHINESE COACH OF THEM ‘CREDITS HIS RUNNERS’ SUCCESS TO RIGOROUS TRAINING AND A SPECIAL DIET THAT INCLUDES TRADITIONAL HERBS AND A MINERAL-RICH POTION MADE FROM THE DONG CHONG XIA CAO WORM’ 2 THE FOLLOWING YEAR TWO AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGISTS PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE ENTITLED ‘CHINESE CATERPILLAR FUNGUS AND WORLD RECORD RUNNERS’ IN THE JOURNAL AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST BEFORE TELLING ‘AN INTERESTING ENTO- MOLOGICAL STORY’, THEY NOTED THAT ‘THE POSSIBLE STRESS-RELIEVING PROPERTIES’ OF THE CATERPILLAR FUNGUS, CALLED DONGCHONG XIACAO IN CHINESE, CONTINUED TO ‘INTRIGUE WESTERN ATHLETES AND SCIENTISTS’, WHICH MIGHT ‘RESULT IN RUNNERS AROUND THE WORLD INGESTING THE CATERPILLAR FUNGUS TONIC’ AND, AS THEY HOPED, WOULD ‘STIMULATE RESEARCH BY MEDICAL RESEARCHERS’ 3 SO, WHAT IS 1 MARK BUTLER (ED ), IAAF WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS, DOHA 2019: STATISTICS HANDBOOK, MONACO: IAAF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, 2019, PP 274, 281, 286 2 DAVID GORDON, ‘THE RUMORED DOPE ON BEIJING’S WOMEN’, NEWSWEEK, 27 SEPTEMBER 1993, SECT 63 3 DONALD C STEINKRAUS AND JAMES B WHIT?ELD, ‘CHINESE CATERPILLAR FUNGUS AND WORLD RECORD RUNNERS’, AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 1994, 40(4): 235–239, 235