Medicine, Health and Social Welfare in Post-1949 China

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73798-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 05, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Historical Studies of Contemporary China

This volume features sixteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai zhongguo shi yanjiu). It covers a wide range of studies on policies and programs crucial to the health and welfare of the people during the PRC’s social transformation. Topics include rural social security, the Five-Guarantee Program, disaster relief, food security, anti-drug campaigns, unity of Chinese and Western medicines, family planning, and senior homecare services. Using archival sources, these studies highlight key issues shaping health and well-being, inviting scholars and policy-makers to engage in discussions on these critical topics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bu, Liping

Fang, Xiaoping

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Editors’ Note on Translation

1 The Establishment and Development of a Socialist Healthcare and Epidemic Prevention System in the People’s Republic of China 1 Hu Kefu

2 Evolution of the Five-Guarantee Program in Rural China 14 Song Shiyun

3 Building and Reforming China’s Rural Social Security System: a 60-Year Review Chen Shaohui, Li Liqin and Zheng Xiaoling

4 The Evolution of Disaster Relief Policies in the People’s Republic of China

A Critical Analysis Jiang Jiwei

5 Is Food Security an Issue for China or for the World?: the International Perspective 65 Zhu Huaxiong and Qu Shang

6 The Emergency Response Mechanism in the Early Days of the People’s Republic of China

A Case Study of the Plague Control in Chabei Prefecture in 1949 Li Honghe

7 The Campaign against Opium and Other Drugs in Hebei Province in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China Dong Xiangqian

8 The Policy of “Uniting Chinese and Western Medicines” in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China Tian Gang

9 China’s Patriotic Hygiene Campaign, 1949–1959 Xiao Aishu

10 The “Eradicating Four Pests” Campaign of the People’s Republic of China Zhao Sheng and Su Zhiliang

11 The Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry’s Ultrasound Promotion Campaign during the Great Leap Forward Zhang Cheng and Hu Huakai

12 On Beijing’s Family Planning Campaign in the 1960s 165 Wang Linran

13 A Study on the Rural Medical Practitioner Training Model in the First 30 Years of the People’s Republic of China Li Decheng

14 Rural Cooperative Medical System in Historical Perspective Xia Xingzhen

15 Prioritizing the Countryside in Healthcare Development Yao Li

16 Development of Home Care Services for Seniors in China Li Wei and Ding Jianding

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liping Bu, PhD., is Reid-Knox Professor at Alma College in the United States. She has published broadly on public health, including Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia (2012), Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia: International Influences, Local Transformations (2015), Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015 (2017), and Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia (2024).

Xiaoping Fang is an Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Monash University, Australia. His research interests focus on the history of medicine, health, and epidemics in twentieth-century China and the socio-political history of Mao’s China after 1949. He has published articles in journals such as Modern China, The China Quarterly, Modern Asian Studies, and Medical History. He is the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012) and China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021; Winner, 2022 Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE Awards).