Knowing Manchuria : environments, the senses, and natural knowledge on an Asian borderland / Ruth Rogaski.
According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an April night in 1952. Chinese scientists determined that these flying voles were not native to the region, but were vectors of germ warfare, dispatched over the border by agents o...
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