The Social History Of Plague In Modern Yunnan Dali

Throughout history,pandemic epidemics have often had a significant impact on social change,culture and art,religion,and the fundamental philosophical and spiritual world of a community,inscribing the existence of infectious diseases and the fear of death over fragile and unstable lives in the history and memory of humanity.This study is a chronological ethnography of how people lived during the 1942 plague epidemic in the Dali region during the Republican era,and the different treatment techniques.By observing and exploring how people coped with the plague and found a cure through historical gaze,a social system with "cure" at its core can be summarized,which contains a complex interweaving of "medical knowledge," "medical philosophy," and"medical philosophy.This social system contains a complex interweaving of "medical knowledge," "medical philosophy," and "medical power," ranging from traditional medicine and missionary medicine to the public health and epidemic prevention system promoted by the national government,as well as "cultural healing" in local beliefs,rituals,and folklore activities.The "immune system" of a local society is comprised of traditional medicine,missionary medicine,the public health prevention system promoted by the national government,and the "cultural healing" of local beliefs,rituals,and folk activities.Thus,an analysis of the interaction of different forces in official epidemic prevention strategies,institutions,and folk healing reveals the different forms of medicine in the different systems of governmental governance,colonialism,religion,and minority culture,which function simultaneously in the same epidemic-induced "social laboratory," each playing its own role or collide with each other.It can be argued that there is a sociocultural model that aims at "treatment" and "cure",in which both socio-cultural and historical narratives have the role of "narrative medicine".To focus on the cultural practice of healing in the history of the plague is to explore more possibilities for human life in a world of ruins.