Carol Benedict
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Benedict |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Benedict |
| SIGNATURE | BENEDICT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Global Electrification
Part I. Concepts: 1. Invention and spread of electrical utilities with a measure of the extent of foreign ownership 2. Multinational enterprise and international finance Part II. Changes: 3. Every city, 1880-1914 4. War, the first nationalization, restructuring, and renewal, 1914-29 5. Basic infrastructure, 1929-45 Part III. Conclusions: 6. Summary of the domestication pattern to 1978 7. Coming full circle, 1978-2007, and a global perspective
Globalizing Tobacco Control
Roddey Reid's book Globalizing Tobacco Control provides a comparative framework for understanding how cigarettes, once an iconic symbol of modernity, became the bete noire of global health by the e
Golden-Silk Smoke
From the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. This book follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to China from the New World, through the development of commercialized tobacco cultivation, and to the present day. Along…
Between State Power and Popular Desire
Tobacco entered Manchuria on the same wave of early modern globalization that brought it from the Americas to other parts of Eurasia in the early seventeenth century. Introduced into northeast Asia sometime after 1600, it began to circulate widely in Manchuria precisely at a time when Hong Taiji (1592-1643) was building the early Qing state. This essay examines Hong Taiji's efforts to criminalize tobacco in the 1630s and 1640s, arguing that these…
Narcotic Culture
Reviewed by: Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China Carol Benedict Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun . Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi + 319 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-226-14905-6). The conventional story of opium is well known both in China and around the world. According to this narrative, the Western powers willfully eviscerated the Qing empire by turning millions of its sub…
Doctors Within Borders
In this concisely written and well-organized volume, Ming-Cheng M. Lo sets out to excavate the historical genesis and changing identities of Taiwanese medical professionals under Japanese colonial rule. Using archival materials as well as interviews and published oral histories, Lo crafts a finely tuned narrative history of Taiwanese doctors throughout the entire colonial period from 1895 through 1945. The author also contributes new theoretical …
The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai
The past two decades have witnessed renewed scholarly interest in the history of Western medicine in China. Influenced by innovative approaches to the study of colonial medicine in Africa and other parts of Asia, as well as by the shift away from the triumphalist narrative that characterized earlier interpretations, China scholars have reexamined the nineteenth-century encounter between Western and Chinese medicine. This newer work seeks to place…
The Modern Epidemic
Reviewed by: The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan Carol Benedict William Johnston. The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan. Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 162. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xvii + 432 pp. Tables, map. $45.00. In contrast to the abundant scholarship now available on the social history of disease in Europe and North America, disease in East Asian history remains a relatively unexa…
Policing the Sick
POLICING THE SICK: PLAGUE AND THE ORIGINS OF STATE MEDICINE IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA* Carol Benedict The New Policies period (1900-1911) saw the emergence of a modernist discourse in China, not only among Chinese intellectuals and local elites, but also among many reform-minded bureaucrats as well. The rhetoric of reform invoked by officials and extra-bureaucratic activist elites alike included ideas such as material progress, scientific developmen…
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China
Global Electrification
Part I. Concepts: 1. Invention and spread of electrical utilities with a measure of the extent of foreign ownership 2. Multinational enterprise and international finance Part II. Changes: 3. Every city, 1880-1914 4. War, the first nationalization, restructuring, and renewal, 1914-29 5. Basic infrastructure, 1929-45 Part III. Conclusions: 6. Summary of the domestication pattern to 1978 7. Coming full circle, 1978-2007, and a global perspective
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China
Policing the Sick
POLICING THE SICK: PLAGUE AND THE ORIGINS OF STATE MEDICINE IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA* Carol Benedict The New Policies period (1900-1911) saw the emergence of a modernist discourse in China, not only among Chinese intellectuals and local elites, but also among many reform-minded bureaucrats as well. The rhetoric of reform invoked by officials and extra-bureaucratic activist elites alike included ideas such as material progress, scientific developmen…
The Modern Epidemic
Reviewed by: The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan Carol Benedict William Johnston. The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan. Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 162. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. xvii + 432 pp. Tables, map. $45.00. In contrast to the abundant scholarship now available on the social history of disease in Europe and North America, disease in East Asian history remains a relatively unexa…
The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai
The past two decades have witnessed renewed scholarly interest in the history of Western medicine in China. Influenced by innovative approaches to the study of colonial medicine in Africa and other parts of Asia, as well as by the shift away from the triumphalist narrative that characterized earlier interpretations, China scholars have reexamined the nineteenth-century encounter between Western and Chinese medicine. This newer work seeks to place…
Doctors Within Borders
In this concisely written and well-organized volume, Ming-Cheng M. Lo sets out to excavate the historical genesis and changing identities of Taiwanese medical professionals under Japanese colonial rule. Using archival materials as well as interviews and published oral histories, Lo crafts a finely tuned narrative history of Taiwanese doctors throughout the entire colonial period from 1895 through 1945. The author also contributes new theoretical …
Narcotic Culture
Reviewed by: Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China Carol Benedict Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun . Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xi + 319 pp. Ill. $35.00 (0-226-14905-6). The conventional story of opium is well known both in China and around the world. According to this narrative, the Western powers willfully eviscerated the Qing empire by turning millions of its sub…
Golden-Silk Smoke
From the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. This book follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to China from the New World, through the development of commercialized tobacco cultivation, and to the present day. Along…
Between State Power and Popular Desire
Tobacco entered Manchuria on the same wave of early modern globalization that brought it from the Americas to other parts of Eurasia in the early seventeenth century. Introduced into northeast Asia sometime after 1600, it began to circulate widely in Manchuria precisely at a time when Hong Taiji (1592-1643) was building the early Qing state. This essay examines Hong Taiji's efforts to criminalize tobacco in the 1630s and 1640s, arguing that these…
Globalizing Tobacco Control
Roddey Reid's book Globalizing Tobacco Control provides a comparative framework for understanding how cigarettes, once an iconic symbol of modernity, became the bete noire of global health by the e
Global Electrification
Part I. Concepts: 1. Invention and spread of electrical utilities with a measure of the extent of foreign ownership 2. Multinational enterprise and international finance Part II. Changes: 3. Every city, 1880-1914 4. War, the first nationalization, restructuring, and renewal, 1914-29 5. Basic infrastructure, 1929-45 Part III. Conclusions: 6. Summary of the domestication pattern to 1978 7. Coming full circle, 1978-2007, and a global perspective
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