Liping Bu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1529522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liping Bu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liping |
| FAMILY NAME | Bu |
| SIGNATURE | BU L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alma College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1262-6479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enlightening the Minds or Reinforcing the Stereotypes
Journal Article Enlightening the Minds or Reinforcing the Stereotypes? Get access Tamson Pietsch. The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 320 pp. $40.00 (hardcover). Liping Bu Liping Bu e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhae038, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhae038 Published: 12 June…
Chinese Medicine in the United States
Chinese medicine is growing rapidly in the United States both as a field of research and in the daily treatment of illnesses. The popularity of Chinese medicine, particularly acupuncture, as a healing mechanism demonstrates American people’s positive experience with Chinese medicine and their embracing it as an alternative to the mainstream Western biomedicine. Chinese medicine is an important part of the Alternative and Complementary Medicine or…
Rockefeller Foundation’s Global Health and China’s Modern Health Development
The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) was the first private organization to have systematically envisioned and practiced public health as a world system. The RF exerted extensive influence in disseminating medical science, public health practice and policies in the world. It set up similar public health institutions in many countries by working with national and colonial governments, empires of Europe and the United States, and the League of Nations He…
National Status in a Global Pandemic
Confronting Race and Ethnicity
Years ago at graduate school, a fellow student in the American Seminar class asked, “What is the difference between race and ethnicity?” The professor replied, “Asians usually find it hard to distinguish the two.” The student was from an Asian country and the professor did not elaborate the distinction between the concepts. It is no brainer for Americans to tell the difference; however, for people new to American society who have not lived in a r…
Gateway State
In Gateway State Sarah Miller-Davenport offers a powerful analysis of the interconnectedness of race, culture, domestic politics, and foreign policies during Hawaii's journey to statehood in Cold War America. In the 1950s–1960s period, rising demands for racial justice and equality at home and decolonization movements around the world fundamentally reshaped American race, culture, and international relations. Miller-Davenport situates her study o…
Liz Fee
Hilary A. Smith. Forgotten Disease
Hilary Smith’s Forgotten Disease examines the changing development of the Chinese illness called jiao qi 脚气 (foot qi in translation) over a millennium and how its modern biomedical identification as beriberi in the early twentieth century misleads and causes confusion of its meanings ever since. Initially a Japanese epidemic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called Kakke (脚气) was identified as beriberi. Since Japan used Chinese…
Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans
Journal Article Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. Get access Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 332. $39.95. Liping Bu Liping Bu Alma College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 5, December 2015, Pages 1863–1864, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.5.1863 Pu…
Ariane KNUSEL. Framing China
Framing China challenges the myth of a monolithic Western view of China by analyzing the textual and visual media in Britain, the United States of America, and Switzerland that shaped and reflected the perceptions and understanding of China in each of these countries during the first half of the twentieth century. Ariane Knüsel draws from a wide range of newspapers and magazines covering a wide political spectrum in each country, including a tota…
Family Planning and Economic Development in CHINA
This colorful poster of a mother holding up her baby daughter against the blue sky projects an ideal image of a strong mother freed from the exhaustion of caring for many children including the burden of housework for a large family. With one child she can concentrate her time and energy on raising the child and playing an active role in the economic development of the country as well. The power lines symbolize the changes in the rural mountainou…
Get Well and Go Back to Work
THIS COLORFUL CHINESE public health poster tells patients with tuberculosis (TB) to get treatment to recover their health and their productivity. The writing on the wall says: “Rest Well and Recover so as to Go Back to Work Early.” During the 1950s, as China embarked on the first Five-Year Plan to build a new socialist economy, health policy emphasized that as industrial production developed, factories would provide labor insurance and labor prot…
Preventing High Blood Pressure and Promoting Longevity
The article focuses on current and historical public health efforts to address high blood pressure among Chinese Americans. A 1972 poster produced by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health is presented. Hypertension prevalence is discussed among Chinese Americans
The Origins of Public Health Nursing
LILLIAN WALD COINED THE term “public health nurse.” She believed that public health nurses must treat social and economic problems, not simply take care of sick people. The public health nurse should be involved with the health of an entire neighborhood and cooperate with social agencies to help improve living conditions. In 1893, Wald and Mary Brewster, both graduates of the New York Hospital School of Nursing, moved to the Lower East Side of Ne…
Unite to Fight Malaria
The article discusses the public health campaign in China to eradicate malaria and the use of health posters depicting prevention, the cornerstone of the public health policy of China from the 1950s throughout the 1970s. The author reports that malaria was controlled by 1990, although not completely eradicated
Isaac Williams Brewer (1867–1928)
The article profiles Isaac William Brewer, public health physician. He was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1897. Most of his medical career was spent working with infectious disease epidemics in rural American towns. Brewer served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and wrote academic articles and books on public health topics
Communicating With Pictures
The article focuses on Chinese health posters, specifically an anti-malaria poster from the 1960s. The poster's visual characteristics reflect the social and political context of the time. The posters teach the interrelation between health and happiness and define malaria and the best way to eradicate the disease. The poster depicts community cooperation in the elimination of mosquito breeding grounds. The six parts of the poster summarize the Ch…
Public Health and Modernisation
A nationwide movement of modern health campaigns developed in Chinese cities in 1915–16. They emphasised connections between good health, modernisation and the all-round progress of the Chinese people. The campaigns used lectures, exhibits, demonstrations and slide and film shows. This article focuses on the campaigns in three cities. It demonstrates how they championed the ideas of hygiene and sanitation and stimulated officialdom into creating …
Food Hygiene and Global Health
IS IT SAFE TO EAT? MEDIA reports of contaminated food imported from China have aroused concerns about food safety and public health in the United States and worldwide. The United States and China have recently moved to tighten the control of food inspection and enforcement of food laws. In the 21st century, the global economy ties local markets to international markets on an unprecedented scale. The process of food production, processing, and tra…
John B. Grant International Statesman of Public Health
JOHN B. GRANT WAS BORN to Canadian medical missionaries in Ningbo, China, in 1890. He graduated from Acadia College in Nova Scotia in 1912 and received his medical education at University of Michigan and his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University. He would later often refer to Arthur Newsholme and Victor C. Vaughan (his professors in public health), together with George Newman, as the men who had most influenced his thinking about…
Cultural Understanding and World Peace
International cultural understanding was a prominent aspect of the peace movement in the interwar years. Private institutions such as philanthropies, religious groups, and educational organizations played a unique role in promoting cultural internationalism by establishing new educational and cultural programs to foster international goodwill. Their efforts not only asserted American democratic and Christian values as important ingredients of wor…
Confronting Race and Ethnicity
Years ago at graduate school, a fellow student in the American Seminar class asked, “What is the difference between race and ethnicity?” The professor replied, “Asians usually find it hard to distinguish the two.” The student was from an Asian country and the professor did not elaborate the distinction between the concepts. It is no brainer for Americans to tell the difference; however, for people new to American society who have not lived in a r…
Gateway State
In Gateway State Sarah Miller-Davenport offers a powerful analysis of the interconnectedness of race, culture, domestic politics, and foreign policies during Hawaii's journey to statehood in Cold War America. In the 1950s–1960s period, rising demands for racial justice and equality at home and decolonization movements around the world fundamentally reshaped American race, culture, and international relations. Miller-Davenport situates her study o…
The Origins of Public Health Nursing
LILLIAN WALD COINED THE term “public health nurse.” She believed that public health nurses must treat social and economic problems, not simply take care of sick people. The public health nurse should be involved with the health of an entire neighborhood and cooperate with social agencies to help improve living conditions. In 1893, Wald and Mary Brewster, both graduates of the New York Hospital School of Nursing, moved to the Lower East Side of Ne…
Public Health and Modernisation
A nationwide movement of modern health campaigns developed in Chinese cities in 1915–16. They emphasised connections between good health, modernisation and the all-round progress of the Chinese people. The campaigns used lectures, exhibits, demonstrations and slide and film shows. This article focuses on the campaigns in three cities. It demonstrates how they championed the ideas of hygiene and sanitation and stimulated officialdom into creating …
Cultural Understanding and World Peace
International cultural understanding was a prominent aspect of the peace movement in the interwar years. Private institutions such as philanthropies, religious groups, and educational organizations played a unique role in promoting cultural internationalism by establishing new educational and cultural programs to foster international goodwill. Their efforts not only asserted American democratic and Christian values as important ingredients of wor…
Cultural Understanding and World Peace
International cultural understanding was a prominent aspect of the peace movement in the interwar years. Private institutions such as philanthropies, religious groups, and educational organizations played a unique role in promoting cultural internationalism by establishing new educational and cultural programs to foster international goodwill. Their efforts not only asserted American democratic and Christian values as important ingredients of wor…
Food Hygiene and Global Health
IS IT SAFE TO EAT? MEDIA reports of contaminated food imported from China have aroused concerns about food safety and public health in the United States and worldwide. The United States and China have recently moved to tighten the control of food inspection and enforcement of food laws. In the 21st century, the global economy ties local markets to international markets on an unprecedented scale. The process of food production, processing, and tra…
John B. Grant International Statesman of Public Health
JOHN B. GRANT WAS BORN to Canadian medical missionaries in Ningbo, China, in 1890. He graduated from Acadia College in Nova Scotia in 1912 and received his medical education at University of Michigan and his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University. He would later often refer to Arthur Newsholme and Victor C. Vaughan (his professors in public health), together with George Newman, as the men who had most influenced his thinking about…
Public Health and Modernisation
A nationwide movement of modern health campaigns developed in Chinese cities in 1915–16. They emphasised connections between good health, modernisation and the all-round progress of the Chinese people. The campaigns used lectures, exhibits, demonstrations and slide and film shows. This article focuses on the campaigns in three cities. It demonstrates how they championed the ideas of hygiene and sanitation and stimulated officialdom into creating …
Preventing High Blood Pressure and Promoting Longevity
The article focuses on current and historical public health efforts to address high blood pressure among Chinese Americans. A 1972 poster produced by the National High Blood Pressure Education Program (NHBPEP) coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health is presented. Hypertension prevalence is discussed among Chinese Americans
The Origins of Public Health Nursing
LILLIAN WALD COINED THE term “public health nurse.” She believed that public health nurses must treat social and economic problems, not simply take care of sick people. The public health nurse should be involved with the health of an entire neighborhood and cooperate with social agencies to help improve living conditions. In 1893, Wald and Mary Brewster, both graduates of the New York Hospital School of Nursing, moved to the Lower East Side of Ne…
Unite to Fight Malaria
The article discusses the public health campaign in China to eradicate malaria and the use of health posters depicting prevention, the cornerstone of the public health policy of China from the 1950s throughout the 1970s. The author reports that malaria was controlled by 1990, although not completely eradicated
Isaac Williams Brewer (1867–1928)
The article profiles Isaac William Brewer, public health physician. He was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1897. Most of his medical career was spent working with infectious disease epidemics in rural American towns. Brewer served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and wrote academic articles and books on public health topics
Communicating With Pictures
The article focuses on Chinese health posters, specifically an anti-malaria poster from the 1960s. The poster's visual characteristics reflect the social and political context of the time. The posters teach the interrelation between health and happiness and define malaria and the best way to eradicate the disease. The poster depicts community cooperation in the elimination of mosquito breeding grounds. The six parts of the poster summarize the Ch…
Get Well and Go Back to Work
THIS COLORFUL CHINESE public health poster tells patients with tuberculosis (TB) to get treatment to recover their health and their productivity. The writing on the wall says: “Rest Well and Recover so as to Go Back to Work Early.” During the 1950s, as China embarked on the first Five-Year Plan to build a new socialist economy, health policy emphasized that as industrial production developed, factories would provide labor insurance and labor prot…
Family Planning and Economic Development in CHINA
This colorful poster of a mother holding up her baby daughter against the blue sky projects an ideal image of a strong mother freed from the exhaustion of caring for many children including the burden of housework for a large family. With one child she can concentrate her time and energy on raising the child and playing an active role in the economic development of the country as well. The power lines symbolize the changes in the rural mountainou…
Ariane KNUSEL. Framing China
Framing China challenges the myth of a monolithic Western view of China by analyzing the textual and visual media in Britain, the United States of America, and Switzerland that shaped and reflected the perceptions and understanding of China in each of these countries during the first half of the twentieth century. Ariane Knüsel draws from a wide range of newspapers and magazines covering a wide political spectrum in each country, including a tota…
Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans
Journal Article Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. Get access Xu Guoqi. Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 332. $39.95. Liping Bu Liping Bu Alma College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 5, December 2015, Pages 1863–1864, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.5.1863 Pu…
Hilary A. Smith. Forgotten Disease
Hilary Smith’s Forgotten Disease examines the changing development of the Chinese illness called jiao qi 脚气 (foot qi in translation) over a millennium and how its modern biomedical identification as beriberi in the early twentieth century misleads and causes confusion of its meanings ever since. Initially a Japanese epidemic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called Kakke (脚气) was identified as beriberi. Since Japan used Chinese…
Liz Fee
Confronting Race and Ethnicity
Years ago at graduate school, a fellow student in the American Seminar class asked, “What is the difference between race and ethnicity?” The professor replied, “Asians usually find it hard to distinguish the two.” The student was from an Asian country and the professor did not elaborate the distinction between the concepts. It is no brainer for Americans to tell the difference; however, for people new to American society who have not lived in a r…
Gateway State
In Gateway State Sarah Miller-Davenport offers a powerful analysis of the interconnectedness of race, culture, domestic politics, and foreign policies during Hawaii's journey to statehood in Cold War America. In the 1950s–1960s period, rising demands for racial justice and equality at home and decolonization movements around the world fundamentally reshaped American race, culture, and international relations. Miller-Davenport situates her study o…
Rockefeller Foundation’s Global Health and China’s Modern Health Development
The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) was the first private organization to have systematically envisioned and practiced public health as a world system. The RF exerted extensive influence in disseminating medical science, public health practice and policies in the world. It set up similar public health institutions in many countries by working with national and colonial governments, empires of Europe and the United States, and the League of Nations He…
National Status in a Global Pandemic
Chinese Medicine in the United States
Chinese medicine is growing rapidly in the United States both as a field of research and in the daily treatment of illnesses. The popularity of Chinese medicine, particularly acupuncture, as a healing mechanism demonstrates American people’s positive experience with Chinese medicine and their embracing it as an alternative to the mainstream Western biomedicine. Chinese medicine is an important part of the Alternative and Complementary Medicine or…
Enlightening the Minds or Reinforcing the Stereotypes
Journal Article Enlightening the Minds or Reinforcing the Stereotypes? Get access Tamson Pietsch. The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 320 pp. $40.00 (hardcover). Liping Bu Liping Bu e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, dhae038, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhae038 Published: 12 June…
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