Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Li / Lai / Dafeng / Mafeng: History of the Conceptualization of a Disease / Category 17
6. 2. A Cursed but Redeemable Body 60
7. 3. The Dangerously Contagious Body: Segregation in Late Imperial China 84
8. 4. The Chinese Leper and the Modern World 132
9. 5. Leprosy in the PRC 177
10. Epilogue: Leprosy, China, and the World 214
11. Appendix 1: List of Leprosaria and Clinics in China 223
12. Appendix 2: Indigenous Leper Asylums in Late Imperial China 231
13. Notes 235
14. Glossary 311
15. Bibliography 329
16. Index 355
17. Backmatter 375