Angela Ki Che Leung received her B.A. degree from Hong Kong University and her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She has worked as a research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taiwan since 1982, teaching in the history department of the National Taiwan University as well. Her primary focus is on the social history of medicine in late imperial China, and she heads a research group on the history of health and hygiene in modern Chinese East Asian societies at the Academia Sinica.

A fascinating and detailed history of leprosy in China. -- Daniel Scott Missiology Highly Recommended. Choice What makes Leung's book important and demonstrates why disease histories should be written are the consequences which develop far beyond the medical - consequences that reach into the social, economic, and the political domains of a state, and perhaps spill over into world concern and judgement, not just of the state but of its people. -- Ruth L. Meserve Journal of Asian History Highly recommended for historians of China and of medicine -- David Luesink Pacific Affairs Leung's complex work stands among the most important books on Chinese medical history... Leprosy in China is a solid piece of scholarship that re-orients the historiography of East Asian medicine in sophisticated ways. Medical History

• 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 Glossary Bibliography Index

Angela Ki Che Leung received her B.A. degree from Hong Kong University and her doctoral degree at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She has worked as a research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taiwan since 1982, teaching in the history department of the National Taiwan University as well. Her primary focus is on the social history of medicine in late imperial China, and she heads a research group on the history of health and hygiene in modern Chinese East Asian societies at the Academia Sinica.

A fascinating and detailed history of leprosy in China. -- Daniel Scott Missiology Highly Recommended. Choice What makes Leung's book important and demonstrates why disease histories should be written are the consequences which develop far beyond the medical - consequences that reach into the social, economic, and the political domains of a state, and perhaps spill over into world concern and judgement, not just of the state but of its people. -- Ruth L. Meserve Journal of Asian History Highly recommended for historians of China and of medicine -- David Luesink Pacific Affairs Leung's complex work stands among the most important books on Chinese medical history... Leprosy in China is a solid piece of scholarship that re-orients the historiography of East Asian medicine in sophisticated ways. Medical History

• 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 Glossary Bibliography Index