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Leprosy in China : a history / Angela Ki Che Leung.
LIBRA RC154.7.C5 L48 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liang, Qizi.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leprosy--China--History.
- Leprosy.
- Leprosy--history.
- History.
- China.
- Stereotyping.
- Medical Subjects:
- Leprosy--history.
- China.
- Stereotyping.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Li/lai/dafeng/mafeng: history of the conceptualization of a disease/category
- A cursed but redeemable body
- The dangerously contagious body: segregation in late imperial China
- The Chinese leper and the modern world
- Leprosy in the PRC.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231123006
- 0231123000
- OCLC:
- 191127497
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