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• Choleric spaces: Producing spaces for cholera patients during the 1877 cholera epidemic in Japan 

  Sampias, Wesley Jordan (2020-05-14)

  This thesis investigates the production of space during the cholera epidemic of 1877 in Japan. Called “choleric spaces” in this thesis, they are separated into two co-constituting types: material and discursive. The material ...

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• Professional medicine and race: Medical missionaries in Qing China and global history of modern medicine, 1807-1912 

  Hur, Yun Young (2019-12-02)

  My dissertation seeks to chart the course in which Protestant evangelism intersected with the localization of Western professional medical practices, particularly surgery, in late Qing China. Current scholarship on Christian ...

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• The politics and identity of fashion changes in early-twentieth century China 

  Wang, Lu (2019-04-26)

  Incorporating gender as a category of historical analysis, this article will take a look at the debate on the symbolic meaning of women’s fashion in early-twentieth century China. Women’s fashion has been perceived as an ...

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• Visualized gender and gendered visuality: Love, marriage, and labor in contemporary Chinese women’s visual culture 

  Yao, LingLing (2019-04-17)

  Feminism was long sidelined as a bourgeois ideology in Communist China and has never fully recovered as the leading apparatus for female empowerment. Chinese women have made tremendous progress under the leadership of the ...

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• Weak nerves in China: Neurasthenia-depression controversy as a window on psychiatric nosology 

  McLawhorn, Jr., Donald Edward (2019-04-17)

  Although shenjing shuairuo (SJSR) has remained a salient clinical and cultural concept in China since the first decade of the twentieth century, in 1980 neurasthenia was removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s ...

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