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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.
Price: $152.00
Pages: 244
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historical Studies of Contemporary China
Publication Date:
24 July 2025
ISBN: 9789004737983
Format: Hardcover
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).
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).