Article ID: CBB001320117

Too Sick to Serve: The Politics of Illness in the Qing Civil Bureaucracy (2012)

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Illness among officials posed perennial challenges to the local order of governance. During the Yongzheng reign (1723-35), a new set of policies emerged that enabled provincial officials to take a temporary sick leave and resume their careers after recovery. I use archival sources to examine how sick leave petitions were generated and handled in civil bureaucracy, and find that matters of personal health were treated increasingly as an impersonal routine. In coping with malingerers, the Qing state relied heavily on peer inspection rather than professional medical opinions. Certain types of illness were frequently reported, reflecting widespread health risks associated with official careers.

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Authors & Contributors
Changsu Kim
Major Diaz San Francisco, Carolina
Lance D. Laird
Reichardt, Elliott M.
Daidoji, Keiko
Pollock, Alexander Chapman
Concepts
Medicine and culture
Disease and diseases
Health
Medicine and politics
Public health
Medicine and government
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Ancient
21st century
Places
China
Levant and Near East
Kyrgyzstan
Mediterranean region
East Asia
Haiti (Caribbean)
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