Plague: War and Peace - China's Environmental and Social Change (1230-1960)

Author: Cao Shuji
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is the first detailed and comprehensive discussion on the plague in China conducted by Chinese scholars. Based on nearly a decade of research, the two authors explore the history of plague in China from perspectives such as the methodology of plague history, plague epidemic patterns (during wartime and peacetime), environmental changes, and national medicine. The book not only proposes new interpretations of the relationship between plague epidemics and environmental changes in China but also offers new models for understanding the evolution of Chinese social history over the past 700 years.