Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century

Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, eds.

Examines the intersections of power, culture and science that went into the struggle to overcome disease and improve people's health in Chinese regions of 20th century East Asia.

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Hygienic Modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth 1 Part I. Tradition and Transition The Evolution of the Idea of Chuanran Contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung 25 The Treatment of Night Soil and Waste in Modern China / Yu Zinzhong 51 Sovereignty and the Microscope: Constituting Notifiable Infectious Disease and Containing the Manchurian Plague (1910–11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei 73 Part II. Colonial Health and Hygiene Eating Well in China: Diet and Hygiene in Nineteenth-Century Treaty Ports / Shang-Jen Li 109 Vampires in Plagueland: The Multiple Meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski 132 Have Someone Cut the Umbilical Cord: Women's Birthing Networks, Knowledge, and Skills in Colonial Taiwan / Wu Chia-Ling 160 Part III. Campaigns for Epidemic Control A Forgotten War: Malaria Eradication in Taiwan, 1905–65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung 183 The Elimination of Schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining Counties, 1948–58: Public Health as Political Movement / Li Yushang 204 Conceptual Blind Spots, Media Blindfolds: The Case of SARS and Traditional Chines Medicine / Marta E. Hanson 228 Governing Germs from Outside and Within Borders: Controlling 2003 SARS Risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling 255 Afterword: Biomedicine in Chinese East Asia: From Semicolonial to Postcolonial? / Warwick Anderson 273 Timeline 279 Glossary 283 Bibliography 287 Contributors 323 Index 327