Chinese medicine can be found in many places around the world. For example, the city where I live, Nashville, Tennessee, is known both as "Music City USA" for its country music scene and as the "buckle of the Bible Belt" for its numerous evangelical churches. Yet here in the conservative South, manifestations of Chinese medicine (and related arts of healing and well-being) abound. Nashvillians practice and consume acupuncture, qigong, and herbal therapies in a distinctive setting that is at once American but also intimately connected to a China both imagined and real.
