I'd nominate her for another prize if she'd also publish a book on traditional treatments that are useless or even harmful. It's not just a Chinese thing. Anytime one (of many thousands) of traditional treatments is shown to work, some people (my lovely wife included) instantly believe that this proves all the other treatments are automatically validated.
I saw an article sourced from the Nobel announcement where the Nobel spokesman made EMPHATIC responses to Chinese reporters that Tu's Nobel was based on her scientific research, not on the qualities of TCM. Though on my social websites, I'm getting a lot of this noise, including my former English dean at a TCM university who made his mark in Translating medical texts for the TCM uni. Gloating can be good sometimes.
I'm more impressed by the social webs here that point her out as one of the Three-Nos: No
postgrad degree, no foreign education/research experience, no leading role in one of the Chinese Academies (of Science, Social Science, Engineering, etc.)
Indeed, most of her initial research was done during the Korean War and Cultural Revolution. Maybe China's past is catching up, at last, to China's future. This Nobel award recognises that.