Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China /

This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, and eventually exploded on the world scene as a global pande...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Benedict, Carol (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
History > Asian.
History > World.
MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • A Note on Translations, Transliteration, Names, and Places
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Origins of Plague in Southwestern China, 1772-1898
  • CHAPTER 2 The Interregional Spread of Plague, 1860-1894
  • CHAPTER 3 The Spatial Diffusion of Plague in the Southeast Coast Macroregion, 1884-1949
  • CHAPTER 4 Nineteenth-Century Chinese Medical, Religious, and Administrative Responses to Plague
  • CHAPTER 5 Civic Activism, Colonial Medicine, and the 1894 Plague in Canton and Hong Kong
  • CHAPTER 6 Plague and the Origins of Chinese State Medicine in the New Policies Reform Era, 1901-1911
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIXES Patterns of Plague Morbidity and Mortality in Taiwan, 1897-1917, and Hong Kong, 1893-1923
  • APPENDIX A Plague Morbidity and Mortality in Hong Kong, 1894-1923, and Taiwan, 1897-1917
  • APPENDIX B Comparative Causes of Death in Hong Kong, 1893-1907, and Taiwan, 1897-1906
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • CHARACTER LISTS
  • Index

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