...Eric Tagliacozzo Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901 . By Myron Echenberg . New York : New York University Press , 2007 . xvi , 349 pp. $48.00 (cloth) . The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean . By Engseng Ho...

...John L. Rawlinson Plague Fighter, The Autobiography of a Modern Chinese Physician . By Wu Lien-teh . Cambridge, England : W. Heffer & Sons , 1959 . x, 667 . Illustrations, Index, 30\-. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 75 groups...

...Marta Hanson Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China . By Carol Benedict . Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press , 1996 . xx, 256 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 755 Practices and the State in Northern Asia...

...Hans Pols A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942 . By Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 . x, 243 pp. ISBN: 978101766831 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Bubonic plague appeared in Southeast Asia near the end of the nineteenth...

...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...

... the characteristics which Wittfogel has associated with this kind of basis: a strong central state, massive public works, a highly structured society, and a powerful ramified bureaucracy. All were plagued with chronic invasions from nearby densely populated areas, and all collapsed with dramatic suddenness...

..., China and Chinese historical actors played key roles in this field throughout the twentieth century. Several episodes illustrate this argument: the Qing organization of the International Plague Conference in 1911; the role of China in the work of the interwar League of Nations Health Organization...

... and intensified old ones existing as a result of unwelcome foreign presence in the land. The difficulties were of such nature as to plague even those nations which had considerable experience and had enjoyed substantial success in colonial affairs. It is the purpose of this paper to examine one incident involving...

...Jung-Pang Lo Abstract One of the first and most pressing problems to confront Qubilai, after his election as khan in 1260, was the problem of food supply for the military and civilian population of the imperial capital. This was a problem which had plagued rulers of China long before the coming...

...Kang Chao Abstract Western economists who wish to study economic conditions in Communist China are plagued both by the quantity and the quality of economic statistics made available by the Chinese Communist authorities. Quantitatively, the meagerness of statistical data makes the task of serious...

.... 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...

... use derives from very real, but to the medical profession opaque, neuroses ultimately due to the trauma of Hiroshima. No treatment proves totally effective. Medicine can only hope to counter illness, not history, and Oda's deepest torments remain chronic. She continues to be plagued by a frustration...

... the moonlightand then he saw what spirit? Why did he wake from sleep? Or perhaps sleep was a long time comingand now he lies in sleep, in the dissecting room. Perhaps he wanted this sleep. Like a plague rat, face smeared with bloody foam, neck twisted, in a lightless hole he sleeps now; he will awake no more. ;He...

... League (Vietminh) led resistance to French authority, did a movement of truly national proportions arise in the country. By their leadership of the Vietminh, the communists became the most potent political force within the nationalist movement. By contrast, non-Marxist parties were consistently plagued...

...Ann Marie Leshkowich Abstract In the late 1990s, a marketplace trader in Hồ Chí Minh City reported being plagued by wandering ghosts. The postwar Vietnamese landscape teems with angry spirits who died violently without descendents to honor them, but the trader's wandering ghosts were living: male...

... lae sinlatham samrap chan matthayom pithi 3 [Textbook on Civic Duties and Moral Virtues for the Third Year of Secondary School]. 2nd ed. Bangkok : Rongrian changphim wat sangkhawet . McFarland George . 1910 . Withi pongkan lae raksa kalarok [Manual of Plague Prevention and Treatment...

..., although statistics must be used warily. Recently Dr. Ian Catanach has been interested in the medical history of British India, and gave a paper on “Plague in India” to the South Asia Studies Association in Sydney, Sept. 1972. I have attempted to deal with some aspects of mortality in “ Malaria...

... and coordination from the mid-nineteenth century onward in particular. The book's exploration of plague in India echoes many of the themes that emerged in the cholera chapter, underscoring how pandemics disproportionately impacted the already vulnerable and marginalized. India was among the worst affected...

... viceroyalties: tariff problems, currency crises, persistent and costly frontier wars, famine, plague, and "sedition" marked momentous changes in the condition of British India during his tenure. Malhotra seeks to illuminate both the dynamics of the new, emerging forces in India's economic and political life...

... required signatories to report outbreaks of three diseases—cholera, plague, and yellow fever—and enforce quarantines against ships from infected areas. Why did the signatories, a “Coalition of European and North American Nations and Empires” (5), choose these three from among the nineteenth century's many...