LINGHUI JI: Pharmaceuticals and Epidemic Prevention in Modern China [ECR]

The 30 years from 1919-1949 were pivotal in the development of China’s biological products industry. The development and management of native biological products in modern China began in the National Epidemic Prevention Bureau（中央防疫處; NEPB）of the Republic of China. This project intends to make use of the materials in Chinese provincial and urban archives, and other overseas materials, to explore three issues: First, the relationship between vaccine effectiveness, transportation and epidemic prevention and control. Second, the cooperation and competition between the vaccine production and marketing systems of the NEPB and other biological products production and marketing institutions. Third, the role of the NEPB in the global epidemic prevention information network.

Dr Linghui Ji, is a Distinguished researcher of the School of History, Zhejiang University. Dr. Ji received his MA in Chinese history from the Central China Normal University, and received his PHD in Chinese history from Fudan University. Since 2019, joining the Department of History at Zhejiang University. His long-term thinking about knowledge and institutional transformation in modern China, paying attention to the knowledge production, social dissemination and historical impact of bacteriological knowledge in modern China. In recent years, the object of research has changed from knowledge to system, and the research has been carried out around the National Health Administration of Nanjing National Government. Based on the theoretical thinking of “health economics”, based on archival data and combined with other modern materials, it has tried to reconstruct the situation of the development of public health administration in modern China. Recently, it has focused on the research and development and promotion of biological products in modern China. His book is Bacteriology Theory and Epidemic Prevention in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China (Chengdu: Sichuan renmin chubanshe, 2023).

MCI’s ECR Workshops are lunchtime seminars held in person at the Manchester China Institute. They seek to bring together students, faculty, and staff who can best provide feedback as Early Career Researchers develop their ideas. Free lunch will be provided.

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