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ReviewFrontiers in medicine2025

Malaria in China: a discourse-historical perspective.

Peng Miao

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Peng MiaoCollege of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.

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Abstract

The translation, transmission, and re-conceptualization of malaria in late Qing and Republican China exemplifies how knowledge on an ancient disease is reshaped through linguistic and cultural mediation. This article analyzes diverse textual medical sources, namely English-Chinese dictionaries (1830s-1900s) and vernacular newspapers and periodicals, to trace and observe the lexical journey of "ague" and "malaria" into the Chinese domain as "nueji" (/) and "zhangqi" (/). Three phases of conceptual transfer are identified: first, early missionary dictionaries (1822-1860s) prioritized symptom-based translations (e.g., faleng /, chills); second, the 1870s-1920s witnessed terminological competition between nueji and zhangqi, reflecting clashes between traditional Chinese etiology and western theories; third, by the 1930s-1940s, nueji became dominant through institutional standardization, while western parasitological frameworks were selectively assimilated, as "

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agueanophelesChinahistory of medicinemalariaparasiteplasmodium

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