Leprosy in China : : A History / / Angela Ki Che Leung.
Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy. She then tracks the relationship between the disease and China's social and pol...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 19 illus., 3 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Li / Lai / Dafeng / Mafeng: History of the Conceptualization of a Disease / Category
- 2. A Cursed but Redeemable Body
- 3. The Dangerously Contagious Body: Segregation in Late Imperial China
- 4. The Chinese Leper and the Modern World
- 5. Leprosy in the PRC
- Epilogue: Leprosy, China, and the World
- Appendix 1: List of Leprosaria and Clinics in China
- Appendix 2: Indigenous Leper Asylums in Late Imperial China
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter