Disease, Colonialism, and the State: Malaria in Modern East Asian History

About the Authors

About the Authors Iijima, Wataru is Professor of History at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. He graduated from the doctoral program of Oriental History at the University of Tokyo and also holds a Litt.D. from that university. He is the organizer of the Asian Society of Social History of Medicine (ASSHM). He is the author of Hidden History of Malaria in East Asia (in Japanese, 2005), Plague and Modern China (in Japanese, 2000), and a co-editor of Development, Disease and Imperial Medicine (in Japanese, 2001). Ku, Ya-Wen is Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of History at the National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from Yokohama National University in 2005. The title of her doctoral dissertation is “A Historical View of Malaria and its Countermeasures in Taiwan.” She has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Geographic Information Service, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her major fields of research include environmental history, history of disease, and historical GIS. Liu, Shiyung is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 and was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University in 2006-2007. He specializes in the history of modern medicine in Taiwan, and his research interests include historical demography, colonial medicine, and the development of standards of medical practice and education in Taiwan. He has published articles in Journal of Japanese Studies, Annales de Demographie Historique and China Quarterly. Darwin H. Stapleton is the Executive Director Emeritus of the Rockefeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York. He graduated from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Delaware. He was a co-founder of the International Network for the History of Malaria that sponsored three malaria history conferences in the 1990s. Among his publications is a co-edited issue of Parassitologia (2000) on the theme “Dealing with Malaria in the Last Sixty Years.” [ $ERXWWKH$XWKRUV Ka-che Yip is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Health and National Reconstruction in Nationalist China: The Development of Modern Health Services (1995), and Religion, Nationalism, and Chinese Students: The Anti-Christian Movement of 1922–1927 (1980). His research interests include the medical activities of Christian missionaries, and the history of public health and diseases in modern and contemporary China. ...