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Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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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.
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