Epidemic Control and Wars in Republican China (1935-1955)

'Epidemic neuromyasthenia' 1955-1978.

A record of fifty-three patients admitted to the Infectious Diseases Department of the Royal Free Hospital between April 1955 and September 1957 suffering from 'epidemic neuromyasthenia' establishes the fact that the condition was endemic in the general population before, during and after the outbreak among the staff of the hospital. A further outbreak occurred in North Finchley between 1964 an...

Translating (Homo)Sexology in Republican China

The Concubine in Republican China: Social Perception and Legal Construction

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the question of whether concubinage violated the principle of monogamy arose in legal and public debates. Late imperial views of the concubine as a minor wife continued to influence popular views of the concubine in the Republic, leading many to condemn concubinage as bigamy. Hoping to circumvent the monogamy issue, Republican jurists who wished to cont...

Eugenics discourse and racial improvement in Republican China (1911-1949).

This paper aimed to examine the advent of eugenics and its characteristics in republican China. Although eugenics was introduced into China as a discourse to preserve and improve race by the 1898 reformers such as Yan Fu (1854-1921) and Yi Nai (1875-?) in the late imperial period, it was not until the republican period that eugenics discourse started to combine with the discourse and movement r...

Re-reading of the Farroupilha past at IHGB (1921–1935): Republican memory and intellectual legitimacies

This paper addresses a re-reading of the Farroupilha War (1835-1845) at IHGB from the 1920’s to the celebration of the conflict centenary in 1935, which ended up integrating it into the national historical memory. In this process, discursive and institutional strategies were triggered, regarding the political use of the past, the historiographical tradition of IHGB and the constructed intellect...