Knowing Manchuria Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland

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English | ISBN: 022680965X | 2022 | 464 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Making sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands.

According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region, but were vectors of germ warfare, dispatched over the border by agents of imperialism. Mastery of biology had become a way to claim political mastery over a remote frontier. Beginning with this bizarre incident from the Korean War,
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