This study examines the institutionalization and social implementation of public health and epidemic prevention knowledge in Manchukuo between the 1930s and 1945. It aims to clarify how such knowledge was produced, systematized, and legitimized within specific institutional frameworks, and how it was subsequently disseminated and embedded in society. Focusing on materials related to the Continental Academy (Dalu Academy of Sciences), the military medical system, and their affiliated academic journals and professional publications, the research investigates the processes through which medical and hygienic knowledge was transformed into authoritative discourse. Previous scholarship has primarily analyzed Manchukuo’s public health policies and medical institutions as components of colonial governance. However, less attention has been paid to the institutional mechanisms through which medical knowledge itself was generated, structured, and circulated, or to the ways in which such knowledge functioned as a tool of governance, mobilization, and population management. By moving beyond conventional approaches in medical or policy history, this study reconceptualizes public health knowledge as part of the broader epistemic and media infrastructures that sustained imperial rule. In doing so, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the relationship between knowledge production, institutional power, and colonial modernity in East Asia.

Authors:
Le Wang, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan

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Last updated: 2023-02-23 23:45:00

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