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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 7:52 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Member pub _Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering
Modernity_ by Tina Johnson
> H-ASIA
> September 8, 2011
>
> Member's publication: _Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering
> Modernity_ by Tina Johnson
>
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> From: Tina Johnson <tpj444@gmail.com>
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I would like to announce the publication of my new book:
>
> Tina Johnson
> _Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity_
> (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield,
> 2011). 268 pp.
> ISBN 0-7391-6440-6 | 978-0-7391-6440-2 (hardcover)
> ISBN 0-7391-6442-2 | 978-0-7391-6442-6 (electronic)
>
> From the back cover:
>
> Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity is the study of
> a pivotal period (1911–1949) in which traditional midwifery, marked
> by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into
> modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly medicalized and
> state-sponsored birth model that is standard in urban China today. in
> the twentieth century, biomedical technologies altered the process of
> childbirth on virtually every level. What had been a matter of
> private interest, focusing on family and lineage, became a national
> priority, a symbol of the new citizen who would participate in the
> creation of a revitalized nation. This transformation of reproduction
> coalesces with the broader story of China's twentieth-century
> revolutions, marked by an emphasis on science and modernity. The
> roles of the state and Western medical personnel were paramount in
> affecting these changes, but equally important were the intense
> social and cultural shifts that occurred simultaneously. The dominant
> themes of reproduction in twentieth-century China are characterized
> by expanding state involvement, shifting gender roles, escalating
> consumption patterns accompanying the commercialization of private
> lives, and the increasing medicalization of the birth process.
>
> "This well-researched book is an important addition to the literature
> on state building and mod- ernization in modern China. Focusing on
> the introduction and development of the biomedical birth model in the
> Republican period, it provides a stimulating case study of the
> transformation of reproduction during a period of far-reaching
> social, intellectual, and cultural changes. The author's careful and
> insightful analysis of the issues of modernization, state building,
> gender roles, consumer culture, and the medicalization of birth in
> modern China is scholarly and commend- able. The book will be of
> considerable value to historians of China and medicine, sociologists,
> and anthropologists, as well as gender studies scholars." —Ka-Che
> Yip, author of Health and National Reconstruction in Nationalist
> China: The Development of Modern Health Services, 1928-1937,
> University of Maryland, Baltimore County
>
> "This richly-detailed analysis is an important contribution to our
> understanding of the ways in which gender, medicine, and
> state-building have historically intersected in modern China. Through
> a multi-faceted account of the individuals and institutions who
> sought to reform traditional midwifery practices, Childbirth in
> Republican China reveals how measures intended to improve women's
> status could also subject female reproductive bodies to intensified
> government control. it is sure to become a standard reference in the
> field." —Yi-Li Wu, author of Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor,
> and Childbirth in Late Imperial China
>
>
> Table of contents:
>
> List of Figures and Tables ix
> Acknowledgments xi
>
> Introduction xv
>
> 1 Missionaries and Modernity 1
>
> 2 Reproduction Theory: Modern Childbirth and Modern Motherhood 35
>
> 3 The Midwifery Profession 73
>
> 4 National Reproduction in Republican China 125
>
> Epilogue: Reproduction in Twentieth-Century China 167
>
> Appendix: Translation of ?Good Methods for Protecting
> Newborns and Infants 183
>
> Bibliography 185
>
> Glossary of Chinese Terms 205
>
> Index 211
>
> About the Author 223
>
> For further information: http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tina Phillips Johnson, PhD
> Assistant Professor of History
> Director of Chinese Studies
> Saint Vincent College
> Latrobe, Pennsylvania 15650
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