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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 569–577.
Published: 01 August 2020
...David Arnold Abstract The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has produced two different narratives in India. One, here described as “historical,” looks back to the pandemics of the colonial past—bubonic plague from 1896, influenza in 1918–19—as a source of comparisons, lessons, and dire warnings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 260–261.
Published: 01 February 2022
... Virulent Zones is an impressively timely book in two senses. Its relevance to our present condition would be obvious even without the epilogue, which explicitly places the book's analysis of influenza research in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the context of COVID-19. It also comes at the crest...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 490–491.
Published: 01 May 2024
... the plague culminated in one of the draconian public health legislations in British India, the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897, which was subsequently invoked during COVID-19. In the chapters on influenza, Arnold is unequivocal about the toll of this disease: “Influenza was the greatest epidemic disaster...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 389–397.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... India's support of the Allied powers allowed Indian moderates to represent India in Paris; during the war, Indian subjects had contributed over one million soldiers and suffered influenza, plague, and famine. The possibility of a new relationship between those governing and those being governed led many...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 724–725.
Published: 01 August 2021
... influenza virus making the next interspecies leap to humans in China before spreading into adjacent territories and around the world. This is the unique historical backdrop to the pandemic preparations that Keck traces in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. The book's greatest strength is its theoretical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (4): 639–659.
Published: 01 August 1973
... nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the era witnessed a woeful crescendo of death. Mortality from malaria increased, plague ravaged the country, cholera, dysentery, and tuberculosis were rife, there were two severe famines, and the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 took a dreadful toll. The terrible tale...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 992–993.
Published: 01 November 2019
... outside official Dutch channels; Francis Gealogo on the critique following the response to the influenza epidemic in the Philippines as also a critique of American oppression; and Laurence Monnais on the selective appropriation of Western pharmaceuticals in colonial Vietnam as evidence of the development...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 255–256.
Published: 01 May 2019
... populations, but also contending with radical planetary transformations in the aftermath of the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the influenza pandemic. As the essays in the forum explain, the events in China, Korea, and India reflect specific national histories of anti-colonialism emerging in 1919...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 302–303.
Published: 01 February 2010
... in Mysore, shows how different establishments worked together and how the well-organized administrative machinery and the existing health infrastructure made it possible to tackle the influenza pandemic of 1918. The collaboration also existed on the military front, the topic of Sehrawat's article, in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 158–160.
Published: 01 February 2022
... could be extracted on farms as a renewable product without killing bears and suggesting that it cured many diseases, such as osteoporosis, cataracts, and even influenza or SARS. While it is estimated that there were 400 bear farms in China raising tens of thousands of animals, this industry has been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 552–553.
Published: 01 May 1978
...-old woman motivations. Post-World War 1 society (wheth- as she spoke of those days; her voice, recorded er in Amsterdam, Ames, or Amritsar) suffered on tape, still evokes fear and bitterness. It is im- from "peace breaking out all over": influenza, portant that we understand her fear, analyze her...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 35 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 November 1975
.... Cholera and the post-war influenza epidemic meant the "missionary ha[d] to be a doctor as well as everything else." Work in government, Sunday and Bible schools also fills the missionaries' day. When India-"stirred" student strikes broke out in 1920, the missionary noted it was a "pity their parents don't...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 551–552.
Published: 01 May 1978
... out all over": influenza, portant that we understand her fear, analyze her postwar elation followed quickly by depression, bitterness, and evaluate the past even as it fades rising rather than falling prices, poor crops. In from living memory. This volume can help in Punjab it also included Muslim...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (4): 942–944.
Published: 01 November 1987
... scholar saw in viskandha "progressive muscular atrophy" (p. 54). Against the immense number of diseases recognized by modern medicine there is a relatively small number of demons and afflictions: takman (fever) comprises several malarial fevers (and perhaps influenza and the common cold as well Zysk has...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 35 (1): 171–173.
Published: 01 November 1975
... through medicine and education. Cholera and the post-war influenza epidemic meant the "missionary ha[d] to be a doctor as well as everything else." Work in government, Sunday and Bible schools also fills the missionaries' day. When India-"stirred" student strikes broke out in 1920, the missionary noted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 865–889.
Published: 01 November 2020
... will be the tallest “pig hotel” in the world when it is completed in 2020 (Dooren 2018 ). CAFOs are some of the most conducive places on earth for the transfer of influenzas and other viruses between animals and humans, a threat to both people and pigs (Borkenhagen 2019 ; Wallace 2016 ). As genetic diversity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 18 (1): 59–65.
Published: 01 November 1958
... influenza. On the scholarly end, there is a steady stream of Asian students coming to this country and a constant flow to Asia of Americans who have been granted Ford or Fulbright awards or who have some technical assignment to an Asian country. And finally, UNESCO has adopted as one of its main projects...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (2): 148–157.
Published: 01 February 1945
..., both in specialized staff and in financial resources. However, from 1914 to 1920 no real progress was made. In fact, the general mortality increased considerably in 1918 and 1919, due in large part to influenza epidemics, but cholera epidemics (1916 to 1919) and extensive smallpox outbreaks (1918...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 343–348.
Published: 01 February 1985
... conclusively that the people in question held the views being attributed to them. He reads a great deal into the doings of individuals, as when he says that Khrushchev's disappearance from public view (on the excuse of influenza) from March 19 to 22, 1959, probably indicated a moment of "acute crisis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 22–50.
Published: 01 February 1996
... it offers a unidirectional model of change for each. In the mortality transition the preexisting regime, where acute epidemic and infectious diseases such as smallpox and measles were the major causes of death, was replaced first by one where endemic infectious diseases such as pneumonia, influenza...
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