Taking as its setting the great Manchurian pneumonic plague epidemic of 1910--1911, this article examines the construction of epidemiological blame that targeted migrant labourers from the peninsula of Shandong employed in the hunting of the Siberian marmot (Marmota sibirica), a natural reservoir of the disease. The article demonstrates how Chinese epidemiologists sought to pathologize marmot-hunting migrants from Shandong as unskilled pestilent coolies, while at the same time valorizing Mongol and Buryat marmot hunters as a native counter-paradigm; a binary anthropology of skill and sanitation, which instituted coolies as an anthropological type essential to the construction of hygienic modernity in China.
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