One Woman's Bitter Medicine

作     者：JENNIFER LIM 

出 版 物：《Women of China》 (中国妇女（英文月刊）)

年 卷 期：1998年第5期

页      面：18-19页

学科分类：1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：One Woman’s Bitter Medicine 

摘      要：ANGUO City in Hebei Province is a small one—only a few years ago, it was still a township—but it is well-known in Chinese medical circles as one of the four largest distribution centers of Chinese herbal medicine. Locals proudly call their hometown the Medicine Capital. Anguo’s streets are lined with medicine shops. In addition, the city is also home to a large medicine wholesale market, where hundreds of kinds of Chinese herbal medicine from all over the country Can be found. Both in the wholesale depot and in the small shops, it is striking that most buyers are men while most of the sellers are women. Song Mulan, the director of the municipal women’s federation,