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Dreams of Prevention and Control

Policing and Public Health in Colonial Asia
by ONIMARU Takeshi
The European and Japanese empires that colonized much of Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries faced numerous challenges in public health and social order. They sought to prevent disturbances and rebellions, suppress crime, improve hygiene, and curb the spread of infectious diseases. In the process, they developed apparatuses...

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The European and Japanese empires that colonized much of Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries faced numerous challenges in public health and social order. They sought to prevent disturbances and rebellions, suppress crime, improve hygiene, and curb the spread of infectious diseases. In the process, they developed apparatuses of modern ‘surveillance,’ particularly in the realms of policing and public health.

Dreams of Prevention and Control outlines the development and limitations of the colonial states’ security and public health measures, spanning from Aden in the west to the Korean Peninsula in the east. This volume examines the colonizers’ perceptions of threats and the methods adopted to combat these threats and highlights the colonized peoples’ responses to these efforts to control.

This collection of studies offers timely insights for twenty-first-century societies, which are increasingly monitored by state and private actors using advanced technologies, including GPS, AI, and vast amounts of data gathered via the Internet.

About Editors and Authors

Takeshi Onimaru is a Professor at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University. His research interests cover political history and modern state formation processes in East and Southeast Asia, mainly focusing on colonial surveillance and
policing.

Table of contents


Acknowledgements

Introduction
Dreams of Prevention and Control: Policing and Public Health in Colonial Asia
Takeshi ONIMARU

Chap. 1
A System of Sanitary Surveillance: Disease, Prostitution, and Regulation in the Settlement of Aden, 1872–1932
Mark HARRISON

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Acknowledgements

Introduction
Dreams of Prevention and Control: Policing and Public Health in Colonial Asia
Takeshi ONIMARU

Chap. 1
A System of Sanitary Surveillance: Disease, Prostitution, and Regulation in the Settlement of Aden, 1872–1932
Mark HARRISON

Chap. 2
Surveillance and Subversion: Reporting of Medical Statistics in Colonial Burma
Atsuko NAONO

Chap. 3
A Province Behaving Like a State: The Expulsion of Offenders Act (1926) and the Territoriality of Colonial Burma
Noriyuki OSADA

Chap. 4
Policing and Repressive Devices: Surveillance of Communists in the Indochina Colonial State
Tomokazu OKADA

Chap. 5
In Search of “Invisible” Targets: Policing and Surveillance in Colonial Singapore from the late 19th century to the early 20th century
Takeshi ONIMARU

Chap. 6
Political Management, Policing, and Nationalist Politics in the Dutch Indies
Takashi SHIRAISHI

Chap. 7
Independence and Public Health: Technologies of Rule in the Colonial Philippines, 1900s to 1930s
Ma. Mercedes G. PLANTA

Chap. 8
Surveillance, Policing and Filtration: Quarantining Repatriates in Busan after WWII
Jeong-Ran KIM

Index

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