Project description
Redefining airborne risk in early China
In the early years of the People’s Republic of China, the relationship between air, health, and productivity was redefined through state-led industrialisation. As factories and mines became focal points for managing environmental and health risks, the emerging field of industrial hygiene gained prominence. However, the development of this scientific regime remains understudied. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SENSEAIR project will provide the first historical analysis of occupational health in China. By examining policy documents, propaganda, and scientific literature, it will explore how new understandings of airborne risks reshaped public health and worker safety. This research sheds light on China’s past and informs global health narratives, offering insights into the intersection of science, labour, and political change.
Objective
This action will provide the first historical analysis of occupational health work in a Chinese context. It will focus on changing understandings of airborne risk, illustrating how state-led industrialisation efforts introduced new ways of knowing and controlling dangerous particles in the air and how these were communicated amongst experts and to lay publics. It will analyse policy documents, educational propaganda, popular science magazines, and scientific journals related to the field of industrial hygiene to investigate how this field became an important context for reconceptualisations of the air and its relationship to the body. Industrial hygiene grew into a prominent area of public health in the early People's Republic of China, with workplaces like factories and mines designated as sites for managing health-related and environmental concerns. The emergence of industrial hygiene as a scientific regime for organising people, production, and environments in twentieth-century China has not yet been studied by historians. In centring this field, the action will reveal how the control of infectious disease, dust-related occupational disease, and emerging knowledge about pollution developed alongside new understandings of the air as well as of worker productivity. Addressing a major gap in histories of modern China, it will demonstrate the crucial role of the industrial workplace as a site for the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. By studying conceptualisations of airborne pathology in the unique setting of socialist China, it will offer novel insights into how the communication of knowledge about risk was reconciled with radical political and economic goals. The action will integrate the history of medicine with histories of labour and environmental histories, making possible an understanding of China’s role in past, present, and future global health events in relation to broader ideological, economic, and cultural shifts.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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751 05 Uppsala
Sweden
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