美国乔治城历史系教授班凯乐(Carol Benedict)撰写、“国家清史编纂委员会编译丛刊”《十九世纪中国的鼠疫》一书,2015年4月由中国人民大学出版社出版。该书充分利用地方志、医书、报章杂志和西方旅行者、中国海关医官、美国领事馆官员的观察记录等中英文资料,不仅从医学史的角度探讨鼠疫的起源与传播,更从社会史的视角探察鼠疫带来的公共卫生问题引发的国家与社会、殖民政府与殖民地人民之间复杂的互动关系。全书分为中国西 Written by Carol Benedict, professor of history at Georgetown University, USA, compiled by Compilation Committee of the State Qing History Commission and Plague of Nineteenth Century China, published in April 2015 by Renmin University of China press. The book makes full use of both Chinese and English materials such as records of local chronicles, medical books, newspapers, magazines, travelers from the West, Chinese customs officers, and officials from U.S. consular posts. It not only explores the origins and spread of plague from the perspective of medical history, but also from the perspective of social history Discovering the complex interactions between state and society, colonial government and colonial peoples caused by public health problems caused by the plague. The book is divided into China West