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War and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China and Japan

Microbic Mass Destruction - Biological Warfare and Epidemic Prevention in Republican China

Nicolas SchillingerInstitute for Chinese Studies, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, GermanyView further author information
Pages 148-169 | Received 26 Nov 2020, Accepted 08 Sep 2021, Published online: 24 Jan 2022

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