地址:臺北市南港區研究路二段128號人文社會科學大樓8樓
形式:實體+線上(Webex)
主辦單位:中央研究院臺灣史研究所環境史研究群
摘要:
作為數世紀以來世界上經濟最發達的地區之一,中國江南始終為重要之歷史研究場域。在現階段關於社會和農業發展的既有研究之上,我將利用使江南地區繁榮的低地生態系統的環境變化,來探討寄生疾病——日本血吸蟲(又稱「釘螺熱」或「血吸蟲病」)之問題。透過研究鄰近太湖之地區,如位於江南流域下游、擁有最密集的農田水圳系統的崑山等,我盼能闡明河流系統和河岸動態最終「為何」且「如何」將沼澤區域化為血吸蟲感染區域。我嘗試結合社會、環境和醫學史各領域,解釋濕地生態系統的變化——如蘆葦和釘螺等物種——如何使人體暴露於病蟲害的威脅下,並揭示河岸管理如何重塑現代中國的人為景觀;同時,亦藉此論證,將濕地生態系統及其與社會互動歷史化之必要性,藉以提升對流行病傳播之理解。
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Topic: Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Bilharzia Disease and Riverine Ecology in China’s Lower Yangzi Delta during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Lecturer: Yu-Cheng Shih(Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History, Brown University)
Host: Ya-wen Ku(Associate Research Fellow in the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
Date: April 7th
Time: 10:30-12:30(GMT+8)
Venue: Meeting Room 802, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Address: 8F, Social Science North Building, No.128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nangang District, Taipei City
Organizer: Environmental Research Group, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
Abstract:
My research articulates the necessity of historicizing the wetland ecosystem and its interaction with human societies for understanding the spread of epidemics. The Lower Yangzi Delta, known as Jiangnan 江南 in Chinese, was one of the most economically developed regions in the world for centuries, and has therefore been the topic of substantial historical research. Based on the previous scholarship on social and agricultural developments, my study foregrounds the parasitic disease, bilharzia—Schistosoma japonicum, also called “snail fever” or the “blood-sucking worm disease” (Xuexichongbing 血吸蟲病) in Chinese—by tracing the environmental changes of the low-lying ecosystems on which Jiangnan’s prosperity relied. By investigating areas adjacent to Lake Tai (Taihu 太湖) such as Kunshan 崑山, the bottom basin of the Lower Yangzi Delta with the most intensive systems of farms and ditches, I examine why and how the riverine systems and shoreline dynamics eventually turned swampy areas into zones of bilharzia infection. With an effort to bridge aspects of social, environmental, and medical history, my research sheds lights on how the changing wetland ecosystem, featuring species like reeds and snails, exposed human bodies to pest threats and reveals the extent to which riverside management reshaped the anthropogenic landscape of modern China.
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