This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public
health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human
health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth
century to the present. The contributors consider the science and
politics of public health policymaking and implementation in
Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the Yangzi River delta, focusing
mostly on towns and villages rather than cities. Whether discussing
the resistance of lay midwives in colonial Taiwan to the Japanese
campaign to replace them with experts in "scientific motherhood" or
the reaction of British colonists in Shanghai to Chinese diet and
health regimes, they illuminate the effects of foreign
interventions and influences on particular situations and
localities. They discuss responses to epidemics from the plague in
early-twentieth-century Manchuria to SARS in southern China,
Singapore, and Taiwan, but they also emphasize that public health
is not just about epidemic crises. As essays on marsh drainage in
Taiwan, the enforcement of sanitary ordinances in Shanghai, and
vaccination drives in Manchuria show, throughout the twentieth
century public health bureaucracies have primarily been engaged in
the mundane activities of education, prevention, and
monitoring.Contributors. Warwick Anderson, Charlotte Furth, Marta
E. Hanson, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Angela Ki Che Leung, Shang-Jen Li,
Yushang Li, Yi-Ping Lin, Shiyung Liu, Ruth Rogaski, Yen-Fen Tseng,
Chia-ling Wu, Xinzhong Yu
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