Overview

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.

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Author:   Liping Bu ,  Xiaoping Fang
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   05
Weight:   0.547kg
ISBN:  

9789004737983

ISBN 10:   9004737987
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   24 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Tables Editors’ Note on Translation 1 The Establishment and Development of a Socialist Healthcare and Epidemic Prevention System in the People’s Republic of China 1  Hu Kefu 2 Evolution of the Five-Guarantee Program in Rural China 14  Song Shiyun 3 Building and Reforming China’s Rural Social Security System: a 60-Year Review  Chen Shaohui, Li Liqin and Zheng Xiaoling 4 The Evolution of Disaster Relief Policies in the People’s Republic of China A Critical Analysis  Jiang Jiwei 5 Is Food Security an Issue for China or for the World?: the International Perspective 65  Zhu Huaxiong and Qu Shang 6 The Emergency Response Mechanism in the Early Days of the People’s Republic of China A Case Study of the Plague Control in Chabei Prefecture in 1949  Li Honghe 7 The Campaign against Opium and Other Drugs in Hebei Province in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China  Dong Xiangqian 8 The Policy of “Uniting Chinese and Western Medicines” in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China  Tian Gang 9 China’s Patriotic Hygiene Campaign, 1949–1959  Xiao Aishu 10 The “Eradicating Four Pests” Campaign of the People’s Republic of China  Zhao Sheng and Su Zhiliang 11 The Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry’s Ultrasound Promotion Campaign during the Great Leap Forward  Zhang Cheng and Hu Huakai 12 On Beijing’s Family Planning Campaign in the 1960s 165  Wang Linran 13 A Study on the Rural Medical Practitioner Training Model in the First 30 Years of the People’s Republic of China  Li Decheng 14 Rural Cooperative Medical System in Historical Perspective  Xia Xingzhen 15 Prioritizing the Countryside in Healthcare Development  Yao Li 16 Development of Home Care Services for Seniors in China  Li Wei and Ding Jianding Index

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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).

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