Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China

By Carol Benedict

This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, and eventually exploded on the world scene as a global pandemic at the end of the century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726612
• ISBN13: 9780804726610
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"