Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.210 on: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:47:58 the lateimperialperiod. a how demonstrates of fear that growing poem a translates Qizi) (Liang Leung Angela volume, new researched thoroughly her In structures. economic and time with shifted have disease the of meanings the elsewhere, and Europe in as , In disease. the of symptoms exhibiting by,those and against, both and rumour through and the power of the stigma victims and fear surrounding the its disease has been used one, physical a as disease social stigmatizes a much as it made has This disfigurement. that disease a is sources: palimpsest medical texts in the nosological chapter (ch. 1); histories, periods of the disease produces a work that is all supple cover to to ambition Leung’s the century). nineteenth shape the in of plague on available book known records to the present day (its closest cousin being Carol Benedict’s this is the only English longitudinal study of a disease in China from earliest Todiseases. contagious of knowledge, feared my most this of history social her with interests these combines China, in philanthropy and of 124). to seduce northern male travellers in order to roadside the by wait would disease the of stages early in women southern that express not does poem The 2). (ch. acts moral or ritual Confucian or Daoist Buddhist, with infected an earlier consensus that those suffering from segregation (ch. 3), and so fear, stigma and actually segregationpoem this in increasinglyexpressed contagion as replaced of fear Moreover, Fujian). in 1518, in first (the appeared first institutions leprosy isolated that regions these in was It semi-civilized. only region miasmatic humid, a Guangxi, and Fujian, particularly south— the of disease a considered indeed was China in 1) chapter and dafeng/mafeng, inEnglishnowknownasHansen’s disease,seeintroduction US$50.00, cloth.ISBN978-0-231-12300-6. photos.) B&W illus., (Tables, pp. 373 xi, 2009. Press, University Columbia History. A CHINA: IN LEPROSY Leung, one of the most respected researchers working on the history history the on working researchers respected most the of one Leung, as variously known (also leprosy century, twentieth the Until but willspreadevermorequickly. (100) But Ifearthatthediseasewillnotthusbestopped that havebeentakinginpatientssincetimeimmemorial. I hearthattherearemafenghospices a fruitofexcessivepoisoninhumidswamps… There isastrangediseasesouthoftheFiveRanges, chong Electronic BookReview:China andInnerAsia (leprosy) led to segregation of leprosy patients in patients leprosy of segregation to led (leprosy) mafeng was also for centuries a gendered disease where young where disease gendered a centuries for also was lai (insect agents of infection) but redeemable through redeemable but infection) of agents (insect with such government-funded such with increased e York: New Leung. Che Ki Angela By lai disorders were cursed and guolai (transmit leprosy, 114- li/lai/

5 Copyright (c) Pacific Affairs. All rights reserved. Delivered by Ingenta to IP: 192.168.39.210 on: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:47:58 The UniversityofBritishColumbia,Vancouver, Canada medicaldilemmas. historical trajectoriesinapproachingcontemporary of knowledge value to enough sane and experts policy China those and of medicine of historians for recommended highly is It review. short this patients findmedicalcareoutofreach. poor as disease the of return a of fears reports Leung medicine, for-profit to way gives years Mao the of medicine socialized and mobilization mass of success Yet,the endemic. as is leprosy where countries of list the off China taken and worldwide patients leprosy million 8.4 cured has WHO, the to according which, 1980s, early the since therapy multi-drug with treatment continued into the current millennium (206) despite effective standardized own national stigma. Yet its in China, eradicate the social and legal to stigma of leprosy has patients leprosy of confinement forced its for apologized post-revolution of (1911) local are military exterminating leper book colonies (163). Leung’s Japan has recently in stories horrific most the Indeed, controlled, according to Cantlie and according to elite Chinese be nationalists. to were who “coolies” Chinese migrant the was class-based—it also but Chinese, as racialized both Webecame (142-143). disease the that see thus leprous” is he and Chinaman, “the was Pacific the throughout leprosy of physician James missionary Cantlie—teacher of as Sun 1940s), Yat-sen—put to it, the (1860s common labour factor migrant Chinese European and of imperialism age the in yet ), (especially generally non-West the to geographically and confinement) Foucauldian (think past medieval the to (5). throughout history” of construction “the rather,concerned, is with She entail. would project modernist a such than leprosy in China? No. Leung’s arguments are far more interesting and subtle recent eradication of the disease (ch. 5). Is this, then, the definitive history of and using interviews, WHO and PRC reports for the final chapter about the 4); (ch. Asia” of man “sick the as image its of China ridding on bent elites and their interaction with the modernizing state project of twentieth-century (ch. segregation of development on chapter the for sources missionary and gazetteers, literature, legal and religious works for the chapter on early early on chapter through the middle imperial for period (ch. 2); works adding religious and legal literature, gazetteers,

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