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cord-313418-v5rtsqtx	Zhu, Annah	Understanding China’s wildlife markets: Trade and tradition in an age of pandemic	2020-08-04		.txt	text/plain	3053	182	52	Beyond the global fight against the pandemic, there has been another global struggle over the meaning and origin of the disease, as evidenced by the spread of terms like ''Wuhan Flu" and ''bat soup." What has become obscured by the news cycle struggling to keep up with the rapid spread of the virus and the political sound and fury surrounding it is any meaningful understanding of China's wildlife consumption and trade. Working toward this deeper understanding, we highlight three facets of China's wildlife trade often overlooked in Western media and scholarship, but that are vital to understanding its dynamics and persistence: (1) the fundamental importance of traditional Chinese medicine in everyday life in China, (2) the speculative aspect of demand for rare wildlife, and (3) the reliance on captive breeding as a conservation tool for preventing species extinction.	./cache/cord-313418-v5rtsqtx.txt	./txt/cord-313418-v5rtsqtx.txt