Angela Ki Che Leung
Biographic Data
| ID | 358381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Ki Che Leung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela Ki Che |
| FAMILY NAME | Leung |
| SIGNATURE | LEUNG A K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1973-7101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Elementary Education in the Lower Yangtze Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Food and Drug
1 Objects and their histories: unraveling the “black box” The history of object is a burgeoning field in contemporary historical studies. An object, like a “black box,” contains rich information that holds the secret code for knowledge construction. Object is a multifaceted being, consisting of aspects like technology, institution, human–object relationship, and human–nature interaction. Medicine and food inform sophisticated questions about soci…
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
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The Pandemic and History
Like many things pandemic, this forum has an appropriately complicated history. In late January 2021, the contributors and I began an online conversation designed to draw out their varied spatial and temporal perspectives in an effort to deepen our understanding of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As we began the conversation, the United States had just recorded twenty-five million COVID-19 cases. More than 414,000 deaths in the U.S. were linked to…
Homeward bound
‘Does home have to be a country or a city?... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate. ... We seemed always to have been home.’
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia
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Infrastructure, Modernity, and the Technologies of Everyday Life
The article shares key insights gleaned from a multiyear collaborative research project on the role of everyday technologies in the making of modern East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. It explains the three key concepts that have guided the authors’ collective research on technological processes and modernity—East Asia as a region, infrastructure, and the everyday—illustrating each with specific examples drawn from the domains o…
Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton-Hong Kong-Macau Region in Late Qing China
This article looks at how globalization in the nineteenth century was inextricably entangled with localization in the Canton-Hong Kong-Macau nexus on the southern fringe of China by tracing the growth of its unique medical culture. It explains the 'glocalizing' process by tracing the development of this medical culture, which consists of knowledge construction and institution building, in the context of highly volatile epidemiological conditions …
Chinese Views of Childhood
Chinese in the twentieth century, intent on modernizing their country, condemned their inherited culture in part on the grounds that it was oppressive to the young. The authors of this pioneering volume provide us with the evidence to re-examine those charges. Drawing on sources ranging from art to medical treatises, fiction, and funerary writings, they separate out the many complexities in the Chinese cultural construction of childhood and the w…
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Book Review: Francesca Bray. Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered. London: Routledge, 2013
The Evolution of the Idea of Chuanran Contagion in Imperial China
Yuan-ling Chao, Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China
Yüan-ling Chao has written a useful book on the social and cultural aspects of medicine in late Imperial China. While the book, a revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation achieved in the 1990s, does not pretend to provide an exhaustive account of the history of medicine of the period, it does give the reader a few important keys to understand the question of medicine in late Imperial Chinese society. The book is in two parts. Part on…
The Business of Vaccination in Nineteenth-Century Canton
The Business of Vaccination in Nineteenth-Century Canton Angela Ki Che Leung (bio) Introduction Lu Xun (1881–1936) wrote a vivid account in 1933 of his first vaccination when he was two or three years old in his home town, Shaoxing. He was vaccinated at home, instead of in a vaccination bureau, "meaning that it was probably a grand occasion." He could still remember the vaccinator as a man "with a plump, round, and reddish face, wearing a big pai…
Medicine for Women in Imperial China
This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in early China also reflected religious and social issues. The authors, based in North America and East Asia, describe and analyze women’s bodies, illnes…
Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China
Medical Instruction and Popularization in Ming-Qing China
Qiu Xiaomei, a prominent woman doctor born to a modest family in Hangzhou in 1911, started to study Chinese medicine under a master when she was eighteen. Before the master decided whether or not to take her as a pupil, she was questioned on the content of four books given to her three months earlier. These four books were: Yixue xinwu (Mental comprehension of medical learning, 1732), Binhu siyan maijue (Four-character verses on vessels and pulse…
Prostitution in Modern Shanghai
Elementary Education in the Lower Yangtze Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Diseases of the Premodern Period in China
It is very difficult to trace precisely the historical development of particular epidemic diseases in China. First, traditional Chinese medical terminology is based on a system hardly translatable into modern Western terms. Second, not only the concepts of disease, but the diseases themselves have changed, so much so that it is impossible to determine whether an ancient classical term meant the same thing when used in premodern texts, or to find …
To Chasten Society
TO CHASTEN SOCIETY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDOW HOMES IN THE QING, 1773-1911* Angela Ki Che Leung During the last decades of the eighteenth century, in the Jiangnan region, a new type of public philanthropic institution arose: societies and homes for chaste widows, generally known in Chinese as xuli hui or qingjie tang. Most research on this institution discusses it only in the context of the nineteenth century, implying that it was essentially a ph…
Organized Medicine in Ming-Qing China
Vol. 8, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1987 ORGANIZED MEDICINE IN MING-QING CHINA: STATE AND PRIVATE MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE LOWER YANGZI REGION Angela Ki Che Leung* Between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries the people of China, like those of Europe, experienced periodic outbreaks of epidemic disease, as well as a high rate of mortality from endemic smallpox, measles , influenza and dysentery-chronic killers in early modern society. …
L'accueil des enfants abandonnés dans la Chine du bas-Yangzi aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Leung Angela Ki Che. L'accueil des enfants abandonnés dans la Chine du bas-Yangzi aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. In: Études chinoises, vol. 4, n°1, Printemps 1985. pp. 15-54.
L'Amour en Chine. Relations et pratiques sociales aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles / Love in China. A Study on Social Relationships and Practices during the XlIIth and XlVth Centuries
Leung Angela K. L'Amour en Chine. Relations et pratiques sociales aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles / Love in China. A Study on Social Relationships and Practices during the XlIIth and XlVth Centuries.. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°56/1, 1983. pp. 59-76
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
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L'Amour en Chine. Relations et pratiques sociales aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles / Love in China. A Study on Social Relationships and Practices during the XlIIth and XlVth Centuries
Leung Angela K. L'Amour en Chine. Relations et pratiques sociales aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles / Love in China. A Study on Social Relationships and Practices during the XlIIth and XlVth Centuries.. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°56/1, 1983. pp. 59-76
L'accueil des enfants abandonnés dans la Chine du bas-Yangzi aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
Leung Angela Ki Che. L'accueil des enfants abandonnés dans la Chine du bas-Yangzi aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. In: Études chinoises, vol. 4, n°1, Printemps 1985. pp. 15-54.
Organized Medicine in Ming-Qing China
Vol. 8, No. 1 Late Imperial ChinaJune 1987 ORGANIZED MEDICINE IN MING-QING CHINA: STATE AND PRIVATE MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE LOWER YANGZI REGION Angela Ki Che Leung* Between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries the people of China, like those of Europe, experienced periodic outbreaks of epidemic disease, as well as a high rate of mortality from endemic smallpox, measles , influenza and dysentery-chronic killers in early modern society. …
Diseases of the Premodern Period in China
It is very difficult to trace precisely the historical development of particular epidemic diseases in China. First, traditional Chinese medical terminology is based on a system hardly translatable into modern Western terms. Second, not only the concepts of disease, but the diseases themselves have changed, so much so that it is impossible to determine whether an ancient classical term meant the same thing when used in premodern texts, or to find …
To Chasten Society
TO CHASTEN SOCIETY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDOW HOMES IN THE QING, 1773-1911* Angela Ki Che Leung During the last decades of the eighteenth century, in the Jiangnan region, a new type of public philanthropic institution arose: societies and homes for chaste widows, generally known in Chinese as xuli hui or qingjie tang. Most research on this institution discusses it only in the context of the nineteenth century, implying that it was essentially a ph…
Elementary Education in the Lower Yangtze Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Prostitution in Modern Shanghai
Medical Instruction and Popularization in Ming-Qing China
Qiu Xiaomei, a prominent woman doctor born to a modest family in Hangzhou in 1911, started to study Chinese medicine under a master when she was eighteen. Before the master decided whether or not to take her as a pupil, she was questioned on the content of four books given to her three months earlier. These four books were: Yixue xinwu (Mental comprehension of medical learning, 1732), Binhu siyan maijue (Four-character verses on vessels and pulse…
Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China
Medicine for Women in Imperial China
This book is the first scholarly work in English on medicine for women in pre-Song China. The essays deal with key issues in early Chinese gynecology and obstetrics, and how they were formulated before the Song when medicine for women reached maturity. The reader will find that medical questions in early China also reflected religious and social issues. The authors, based in North America and East Asia, describe and analyze women’s bodies, illnes…
The Business of Vaccination in Nineteenth-Century Canton
The Business of Vaccination in Nineteenth-Century Canton Angela Ki Che Leung (bio) Introduction Lu Xun (1881–1936) wrote a vivid account in 1933 of his first vaccination when he was two or three years old in his home town, Shaoxing. He was vaccinated at home, instead of in a vaccination bureau, "meaning that it was probably a grand occasion." He could still remember the vaccinator as a man "with a plump, round, and reddish face, wearing a big pai…
The Evolution of the Idea of Chuanran Contagion in Imperial China
Yuan-ling Chao, Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China
Yüan-ling Chao has written a useful book on the social and cultural aspects of medicine in late Imperial China. While the book, a revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation achieved in the 1990s, does not pretend to provide an exhaustive account of the history of medicine of the period, it does give the reader a few important keys to understand the question of medicine in late Imperial Chinese society. The book is in two parts. Part on…
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
Book Review: Francesca Bray. Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered. London: Routledge, 2013
Chinese Views of Childhood
Chinese in the twentieth century, intent on modernizing their country, condemned their inherited culture in part on the grounds that it was oppressive to the young. The authors of this pioneering volume provide us with the evidence to re-examine those charges. Drawing on sources ranging from art to medical treatises, fiction, and funerary writings, they separate out the many complexities in the Chinese cultural construction of childhood and the w…
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia
This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking and implementation in Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the Yangzi River delta, focusing mostly on towns and villages rather than cities. Whether d…
Infrastructure, Modernity, and the Technologies of Everyday Life
The article shares key insights gleaned from a multiyear collaborative research project on the role of everyday technologies in the making of modern East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. It explains the three key concepts that have guided the authors’ collective research on technological processes and modernity—East Asia as a region, infrastructure, and the everyday—illustrating each with specific examples drawn from the domains o…
Glocalizing Medicine in the Canton-Hong Kong-Macau Region in Late Qing China
This article looks at how globalization in the nineteenth century was inextricably entangled with localization in the Canton-Hong Kong-Macau nexus on the southern fringe of China by tracing the growth of its unique medical culture. It explains the 'glocalizing' process by tracing the development of this medical culture, which consists of knowledge construction and institution building, in the context of highly volatile epidemiological conditions …
Homeward bound
‘Does home have to be a country or a city?... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate. ... We seemed always to have been home.’
The Pandemic and History
Like many things pandemic, this forum has an appropriately complicated history. In late January 2021, the contributors and I began an online conversation designed to draw out their varied spatial and temporal perspectives in an effort to deepen our understanding of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As we began the conversation, the United States had just recorded twenty-five million COVID-19 cases. More than 414,000 deaths in the U.S. were linked to…
Elementary Education in the Lower Yangtze Region in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Food and Drug
1 Objects and their histories: unraveling the “black box” The history of object is a burgeoning field in contemporary historical studies. An object, like a “black box,” contains rich information that holds the secret code for knowledge construction. Object is a multifaceted being, consisting of aspects like technology, institution, human–object relationship, and human–nature interaction. Medicine and food inform sophisticated questions about soci…
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong and the Center for Asian Studies at the
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