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A Collection Exploring Public Health Policies And Implementation In Chinese Regions Of East Asia From The Late Nineteenth Century To The Present; Many Of The Contributors Are Based In Taiwan. Introduction: Hygienic Modernity In Chinese East Asia / Charlotte Furth -- The Evolution Of The Idea Of Chuanran Contagion In Imperial China / Angela Ki Che Leung -- The Treatment Of Night Soil And Waste In Modern China / Yu Xinzhong -- Sovereignty And The Microscope: Constituting Notifiable Infectious Disease And Containing The Manchurian Plague (1910-11) / Sean Hsiang-lin Lei -- Eating Well In China: Diet And Hygiene In Nineteenth-century Treaty Ports -- Shang-jen Li -- Vampires In Plagueland: The Multiple Meanings Of Weisheng In Manchuria / Ruth Rogaski -- Have Someone Cut The Umbilical Cord: Women's Birthing Networks, Knowledge And Skills In Colonial Taiwan, / Wu Chia-ling -- A Forgotten War: Malaria Eradication In Taiwan, 1905-65 / Lin Yi-ping And Liu Shiyung -- The Elimination Of Schistosomiasis In Jiaxing And Haining Counties, 1948-58: Public Health As Political Movement / Li Yushang -- Conceptual Blind Spots, Media Blindfolds: The Case Of Sars And Traditional Chinese Medicine / Marta E. Hanson -- Governing Germs From Outside And Within Borders: Controlling 2003 Sars Risk In Taiwan / Tseng Yen-fen And Wu Chia-ling -- Afterword: Biomedicine In Chinese East Asia: From Semicolonial To Postcolonial / Warwick Anderson -- Timeline. Edited By Angela Ki Che Leung And Charlotte Furth. Description Based On Print Version Record Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English