Resistance and Receptivity; French Colonial Medicine in Southwest China, 1898-1930  

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Bretelle-Establet, Florence

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 25 no. 2 (Apr. 1999), page 171-203.
Topik: French Colonial Medicine in Southwest China; 1898-1930
Fulltext: 171MC252.pdf (118.81KB)

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In the last years of the nineteenth century, the French Ministry of Colonies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to establish lay medical dispensaries in Chinese areas located outside Indochina. The ministries intended the dispensaries, as well as schools and mail services, to reinforce French influence in sensitive areas—across the border from the Tonkin protectorate as well as the Chinese ports of Beihai, Guangzhou, and Haikou—by winning the confidence of the Chinese people. They also intended the dispensaries to be the first line of defense against the spread of epidemics from China, which were frequent and virulent (Benedict, 1996: 39-71; XianWeixun, 1988: 97- 104). Thus, the dispensaries were required to submit detailed and regular reports on the basis of which the French colonial authorities could impose quarantines to protect Indochina. The French metropole itself, aware of the danger posed by the unchecked spread of epidemics from the Indochinese colony, also stressed the urgency of control (GGI.doc.23863, 1893).

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