Leprosy in China: A History

Angela Ki Che Leung

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December, 2008
Cloth, 392 pages, 19 illus., 3 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-12300-6
$55.00 / £38.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Li/Lai/Dafeng/Mafeng: History of the Conceptualization of a Disease/Category

2. A Cursed but Redeemable Body

3. The Dangerously Contagious Body: Segregation in Late Imperial China

4. The Chinese Leper and the Modern World

5. Leprosy in the PRC

Epilogue: Leprosy, China, and the World

Appendix 1: List of Leprosaria and Clinics in China

Appendix 2: Indigenous Leper Asylums in Late Imperial China

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Health
• History of Science and Technology

Series

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

About the Author

Angela Ki Che Leung received her B.A. degree from Hong Kong University and her doctoral degree at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She has worked as a research fellow at the Academia Sinica of Taiwan since 1982, teaching in the history department of the National Taiwan University as well. Her primary focus is on the social history of medicine in late imperial China, and she heads a research group on the history of health and hygiene in modern Chinese East Asian societies at the Academia Sinica.

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