Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China

Autorentext
Carol Benedict is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University.

Klappentext
"This is an outstanding work on one of the major diseases of world history. It is particularly important because most of what we know of the historic impact of diseases on society is based on the European experience. Presenting new and little-known material on the history of bubonic plague in China, Carol Benedict offers an original analysis of how economic growth and development in late Qing China produced ecological changes that promoted the spread of plague. The book will greatly broaden our understanding of the social history of disease, and it provides an excellent model of how to do this kind of research."--Ann Janetta, University of Pittsburgh
"Should interest a broad audience-- those interested in the history of medicine, modern world history, and late imperial and modern Chinese history. . . . But Benedict does not restrict her analysis to China. By applying a regional systems model . . . she contributes to the comparative history of disease." --Journal of Asian Studies

Zusammenfassung
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 pandemic at the end of the century. The author finds the origins of the pandemic in Qing economic expansion, which brought new populations into contact with plague-bearing animals along China's southwestern frontier. She shows how the geographic diffusion of the disease closely followed the growth of interregional trading networks, particularly the domestic trade in opium, during the nineteenth century. A discussion of foreign interventions during plague outbreaks along China's southern coast links the history of plague to the political impact of imperialism on China, and to the ways in which European cultural representations of the Chinese influenced the theory and practice of colonial medicine.

Inhalt
A note on translations, transliteration, names, and places; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Origins of plague in Southwestern China, 1772-1898; 2. The interregional spread of plague, 1860-1894; 3. The spatial diffusion of plague in the Southeast coast Macroregion, 1884-1949; 4. Nineteenth-century Chinese medical, religious, and administrative response to plague; 5. Civic activism, colonial medicine, and the 1894 plague in Canton and Hong Kong; 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; A. Plague morbidity and mortality in Hong Kong, 1894-1923, and Taiwan, 1897-1917; B. Comparative causes of death in Hong Kong, 1893-1907, and Taiwan, 1897-1906; Notes; Works cited; Character lists; A. Names, terms, and titles; B. Place names; Index.

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