Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

Journal Article Past and Present · April 22, 2023 AbstractIn March 1940, leaders of the Chongqing night-soil trade union sent a petition to the governor of China’s Sichuan province to contest health officials’ attempts to seize the night-soil industry. Clea ... Full text Open Access Cite

Contested medicines in twentieth-century China

Chapter · May 30, 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

HEALTH AND STATE MAKING: THE EXPANSION OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES DURING THE WAR OF RESISTANCE AGAINST JAPAN (1937–1945)

Journal Article Twentieth-Century China · January 1, 2022 Wars frequently instigate the expansion of health services, a key component of state building. China first witnessed rapid growth in military and civilian health services during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937–1945). This essay explores two facto ... Full text Cite

Comment: Toward a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine.

Journal Article Bulletin of the history of medicine · January 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

Mary Augusta Brazelton, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China

Journal Article Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine

Journal Article PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW · 2021 Cite

The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China by Emily Baum

Journal Article Twentieth-Century China · 2020 Full text Cite

Historical Echoes

Chapter · January 1, 2020 From the perspective of medical history, the novel coronavirus is not entirely novel. The work of women has long been essential for treating the sick and shoring up medical systems, though the degree to which women are acknowledged does change, sometimes i ... Full text Cite

Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939–1949 Di Wang Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018 xiv + 260 pp. $29.95 ISBN 978-1-5036-0530-5

Journal Article The China Quarterly · March 2019 Full text Cite

Partial Resilience in Nationalist China’s Wartime Capital: Surviving in Chongqing

Chapter · January 1, 2019 In November 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army reached the Chinese capital city Nanjing, sending the Nationalist government fleeing up the Yangzi River, first to Wuhan, then to Chongqing. Directing the nation from a temporary capital after having lost the ma ... Full text Cite

Intimate Communities Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945

Book · October 9, 2018 Intimate Communities is not only a major contribution to the histories of medicine, gender, emotion, and nationalism, but even more importantly, it opens up exciting horizons by making visible and exploring the surprising entanglements ... ... Open Access Cite

China’s War with Japan 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival, by Rana Mitter. London: Allen Lane, 2013. xxii+458 pp. £25.00 (cloth), £14.99 (eBook).

Journal Article The China Journal · January 2016 Full text Open Access Cite

Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity by Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei (review)

Journal Article Bulletin of the History of Medicine · December 2015 Full text Open Access Cite

Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900–1937. written by Elizabeth J. Remick, 2014

Journal Article Nan Nü · March 24, 2015 Full text Open Access Cite

Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China. By Isabel Brown Crook Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. xxiv, 301 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

Journal Article The Journal of Asian Studies · August 2014 Full text Open Access Cite

The influence of war on China's modern health systems

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Protecting the National Body: Gender, Public Health and Medicine in Southwest China during the War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1945

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