China and the Cholera Pandemic

Restructuring Society under Mao

AvXiaoping Fang

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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 pandemic in recorded history, the communist government committed to social restructuring in order to affirm its legitimacy and prevent transmission of the disease. Focusing on the Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Province, the area most seriously stricken by cholera at the time, Xiaoping Fang demonstrates how China’s pandemic was far more than a health incident; it became a significant social and political influence during a dramatic transition for the People’s Republic.China and the Cholera Pandemic reveals how disease control and prevention, executed through the government’s large-scale, clandestine anticholera campaign, were integral components of its restructuring initiatives, aimed at restoring social order. The subsequent rise of an emergency disciplinary health state furthered these aims through quarantine and isolation, which profoundly impacted the social epidemiology of the region, dividing Chinese society and reinforcing hierarchies according to place, gender, and socioeconomic status.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:498 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Histories and Ecologies of Health
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822966838

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Xiaoping Fang is assistant professor of history at the School of Humanities of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests focus on the history of medicine, health, and disease in twentieth-century China and the socio-political history of Mao’s China after 1949.

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Provides a very informative analysis of political, social, and economic institutions in China in the 1960s. It is a must-read for students interested in the social history of China, the political economy of public health, and China studies in general.