Tag: The Ailuo Brain Tonic
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A Tale of Two Tonics: Sino-Western psychopharmaceutical modernity in Shanghai, 1936
Richard Zhang Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Advertisement for Sanatogen in the Shen Bao, October 25, 1936. Source (accessed through Yale University). Shanghai, 1936: Positioned at the Yangtze Delta, this sprawling, bustling seaport was a multiplicity of cities. It was China’s most lucrative commercial hub for many business elites; a lavish, cosmopolitan adopted home for expatriates from at…