Health and hygiene in Chinese East Asia : policies and publics in the long twentieth century / edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth.

Durham [N.C.] ; London : Duke University Press, 2010.

viii, 337 pages ; 22 cm

Introduction: hygienic modernity in Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth -- The evolution of the idea of chuanran contagion in Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung -- The treatment of night soil and waste in modern China / Yu Xinzhong -- Sovereignty and the microscope : constituting notifiable infectious disease and containing the Manchurian plague (1910-11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei -- Eating well in China : diet and hygiene in nineteenth-century treaty ports -- Shang-jen Li -- Vampires in plagueland : the multiple meanings of Weisheng in Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski -- Have someone cut the umbilical cord : women's birthing networks, knowledge and skills in colonial Taiwan, / Wu Chia-Ling -- A forgotten war : malaria eradication in Taiwan, 1905-65 / Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung -- The elimination of schistosomiasis in Jiaxing and Haining counties, 1948-58 : public health as political movement / Li Yushang -- Conceptual blind spots, media blindfolds : the case of SARS and traditional Chinese medicine / Marta E. Hanson -- Governing germs from outside and within borders : controlling 2003 SARS risk in Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen and Wu Chia-Ling -- Afterword : biomedicine in Chinese East Asia : from semicolonial to postcolonial / Warwick Anderson -- Timeline.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-321) and index.