The 2003 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic marked a turning point in recent Chinese history. In the years that followed the epidemic, a number of texts were published that analysed the effects of the event on Chinese society, contributing to the growing body of work on the anthropology of health in China. In her first book, published 13 years after the epidemic, Katherine Mason, an anthropologist at Brown University, casts a fresh eye over the evolution of local public health ...

See China Perspectives 2016/3