Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China

本書是中國第一部關於疾病史的英文著作，追溯了18世紀後期雲南省開始出現的鼠疫流行病，在十九世紀蔓延到中國南方的大部分地區，並最終在世界上爆發。作為本世紀末全球流行病的場景。

作者在清朝經濟擴張中發現了大流行的起源，這使得新的人口與中國西南邊境的瘟疫動物接觸。她展示了該疾病的地理傳播如何密切關註十九世紀期間區域間貿易網絡的增長，特別是鴉片的國內貿易。在中國南部沿海地區瘟疫爆發期間對外國干預的討論將瘟疫史與帝國主義對中國的政治影響聯繫起來，並將中國的歐洲文化表現方式影響到殖民醫學的理論和實踐。

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.

   Carol Benedict (Autor)

Publisher:Stanford University Press 

ISBN:    978-0804726610 

原價   £ 30  台幣價 NT$1560