Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China
Year: 1997
Type: book-review
Abstract: 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.
Source: Choice Reviews Online
Author: C Benedict
Institution: Stanford University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2090172741