Disease and Public Health in China since 1800
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Disease and Public Health in China since 1800
Disease and Public Health in China since 1800 is an upper level GenEd class that was rst offered by
the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University in the fateful spring semester of 2020.
Little did we expect how relevant our topic would soon become.
Disease and Public Health in China since 1800
After only two class meetings we found ourselves “e-learning” about past ways of dealing with
epidemics just as we ourselves were trying to cope with the profound changes that COVID-19
brought to our daily lives.
The class was unusual. Not only because of the remote teaching, but also because of a new form of
textual assignment: image based storytelling. Here we share with you two inspiring essays about
beating deadly epidemics composed by the students.
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Feng jiaqiao, Wang Leyao, Huang Yining
and Leng Rujing
Zhang Chenxiao, Zhou Ziyu, Huang
Yantian and Gao Ben
These stories are two examples out of many brilliant stories produced by the students of this year's class. They
were chosen for their relevance to COVID-19.
The project was supported by:
Dr. Natalie Köhle (course teacher)
Peter Tam (teaching assistant)
Laura Sumrall (editor)
The Department of History
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Image credits
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Epidemic of Plague in Manchuria (China) in 1911 © Institut Pasteur/Archives Henri Mollaret. Reproduced from Photographs of the Third Plague Pandemic (https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284835),University of Cambridge. Reproduced by permission of the Institut Pasteur.
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Model of anti-plague mask designed by Charles Broquet © Institut Pasteur/Archives Charles Broquet. Reproduced from Photographs of the Third Plague Pandemic (https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284772), University of Cambridge. Reproduced by permission of the Institut Pasteur
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