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“xiaoping fang”

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  • China and the Cholera Pandemic

    Restructuring Society under Mao

    by Xiaoping Fang ...
    Series series
    Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the infected waters of southeastern coastal China. Confronted with a political crisis and the seventh global cholera ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • China and the Cholera Pandemic

    Restructuring Society under Mao

    by Xiaoping Fang ...
    Series series
    Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the infected waters of southeastern coastal China. Confronted with a political crisis and the seventh global cholera ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China

    by Xiaoping Fang ...
    In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of health-care delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medical care, creating a national network of health-care services for the very first time. The barefoot doctors were portrayed nationally and internationally as revolutionary ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Health Care and Traditional Medicine in China 1800-1982

    by S. M. Hillier, Tony Jewell ...
    First published in 1983. Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People's Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the conflicts of State bureaucracy, Party and medical profession in their attempts to match political ... Read more

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  • Constructing China

    Clashing Views of the People's Republic

    by Mobo Gao ...
    From fear and anxiety, to celebration, China's rise has provoked a variety of responses across the world. In light of this phenomenon, how are our understandings of China produced?From West to East, Mobo Gao interrogates knowledge production; rejecting the supposed objectivity of empirical statistics and challenging the assumption of a dichotomy between the Western liberal democracy and Chinese ... Read more

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  • Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia

    International Influences, Local Transformations

    Edited by Liping Bu, Ka-che Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War. It examines how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices were improved, shows how international health standards were implemented, sometimes through the direct intervention of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia

    Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century

    by Xinzhong Yu, Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Angela Ki Che Leung ...
    This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking and implementation in Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the Yangzi River delta, focusing mostly ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    by Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Chinese Economy

    The Driving Forces Behind Modern Day China

    by Rongxing Guo ...
    This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The book sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Epidemics in Modern Asia

    by Robert Peckham ...
    Series series New Approaches to Asian History
    Epidemics have played a critical role in shaping modern Asia. Encompassing two centuries of Asian history, Robert Peckham explores the profound impact that infectious disease has had on societies across the region: from India to China and the Russian Far East. The book tracks the links between biology, history, and geopolitics, highlighting infectious disease's interdependencies with empire, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Singapore's First Year of COVID-19

    Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism

    Edited by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world. As a concise, holistic, and critical documentation of the first year of COVID-19 in Singapore, the multi ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization

    Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei

    by W Emily Chow, Chiang Chun-chi, Rosita Dellios, James C. Hsiung, Shawn S. F. Kao, Richard W. Mansbach, Samuel S. Zhao ...
    In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government was in control of most resources, tangible and intangible. For that reason, our unit of analysis ... Read more

    $105.99 USD