Chapter 4:Translating Knowledges focuses on Meis experiences and observations as an intern at the Shuguang Hospital, located within Shanghai.

An interesting observation mentioned within the reading was the coexistence of traditional Chinese medicine alongside the relatively newer biomedical medicine within hospitals in China; the biggest and strongest department being the Department of General Internal Medicine. Mei speaks about her experiences with taking field notes; students would sit around the desk of Dr. Ma and copy his diagnoses and prescriptions that were assigned to patients. Students would utilize such copies to compare to textbook cases, and this tied into the concept of chaofang, which literally means copy description, and was a key instrument of learning. In particular, Mei speaks about his experience within the Department of Acupuncture alongside Dr.Huang. Dr.Huang is the lead of the Department of Acupuncture at Shuguang Hospital and also serves as the primary instructor to interns and international visitors who often look to learn about her practice. Huang believes that students came to China to learn more of the traditional elements in Chinese Medicine, and find different methods to treat their patients. Mei proceeds to talk about an instance when a cold front hit Shanghai and as a result the hospital she worked at saw a significant influx of patients come in for paralyzed faces. Mei observes Dr.Huang carefully assess each patient, while addressing questions and concerns for her interns and observers; she is particularly skillful in mentioning traditional terms such as wind and transforming them into biomedical terms that her interns could understand. Also, Huang talked about the connection between the patient and acupuncturist; the acupuncturist depends on both the needle and the patient to see how effective their puncturing is performing. Another unique instance was when Dr.Huang is visited by a US trained MD Dr.Bai. Dr.Bai was visting the hospital for the same reasons as many interns; to learn about traditional Chinese medicine and discover additional ways to treat their patients; however, he wanted to learn more about the specific scientific research on TCM & acupuncture. Dr.Huang quickly proves herself to be well educated in both the new biomedical and TCM research and explains to Dr.Bai that TCM isnt quantifiable and its not inferior to the Westerner biomedical medicine, simply different.