Description: China and the Cholera Pandemic : Restructuring Society Under Mao, Paperback by Fang, Xiaoping, ISBN 0822966832, ISBN-13 9780822966838, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: China and the Cholera Pandemic : Restructuring Society Under Mao
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: China and the Cholera Pandemic : Restructuring Society under Mao
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Internal Medicine, History, Epidemiology, Diseases
Type: Textbook
Author: Xiaoping Fang
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Science, Medical
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
