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Imperfect conceptions : medical knowledge, birth defects, and eugenics in China.
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ISBN: 1850653313 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Hurst

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This work analyzes the relationship between medicine and ideas about reproduction in China. Drawing on a variety of sources, the author shows how the notion of reproduction as a potentially dangerous phenomenon - one regulated to safeguard the nation's eugenic future - permeated Chinese society. Frank Dikotter's work analyzes the relationship between medicine and ideas about reproduction in China, from the late Ming to the present. Drawing on sources ranging from treatises on reproductive disorders to flyers advertising freak shows, he shows how the notion of reproduction as a potentially dangerous phenomenon - one that has to be strictly regulated to safeguard the nation's eugenic future - permeated Chinese society. The process was accelerated by the appropriation of genetics and embryology in the late 19th century and by the publication of works of "popular medicine". These historical developments engendered the view that individuals - who were always represented in relation to the larger patrilineal collectivity - should be accountable not only for their own reproductive behaviour, but also for the health of future offspring. Such sentiments still hold sway today. Since Deng Xiaoping's accession to power, human genetics has come to occupy centre stage, as a growing number of socially undesirable traits, including criminality, are attributed to "bad" genes, which the state seeks to regulate in order to restrict such "inferior births". The final part of the book looks at the social, political and cultural context of the controversial eugenics law passed in China in 1995, which potentially endows local cadres and medical authorities with the power of life and death. The ethical and political implications of this legislation are closely scrutinized.


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Judge Bao and the rule of law
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ISBN: 1282758306 9786612758300 9814277584 9789814277587 9789814277013 9814277010 981430445X 9789814304450 9781282758308 6612758309 Year: 2010 Publisher: Singapore World Scientific

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These texts offer a reflection of the legend of Judge Bao in its earliest phase of development. Wilt Idema includes an extended introduction placing the ballad-stories in context with the development of the Judge Bao legend.


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Voting as a Rite
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ISBN: 9780674237216 0674237218 9780674237223 0674237226 1684175933 9781684175932 Year: 2019 Publisher: Boston Leiden;Boston Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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"For over a century, voting has been a surprisingly common political activity in China. This book re-examines China's experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history"--Provided by publisher.

Manslaughter, markets, and moral economy : violent disputes over property rights in eighteenth century China
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ISBN: 0521640458 0521027810 0511551347 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book, Thomas Buoye examines the impact of large-scale economic change on social conflict in eighteenth-century China. He draws upon a large body of actual, documented homicide cases originating in property disputes to recreate the social tensions of rural China during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795). The development of property rights, a process that had begun in the Ming dynasty, was accompanied by other changes that fostered disruption and conflict, including an explosion in the population growth and the increasing strain on land and resources, and increasing commercialization in agriculture. Buoye challenges the 'markets' and 'moral economy' theories of economic behaviour. Applying the theories of Douglass North for the first time to this subject, he uses an institutional framework to explain seemingly irrational economic choices. Buoye examines demographic and technological factors, ideology, and political and economic institutions in rural China to understand the link between economic and social change.

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