Abstract
My research topic is the establishment of epidemic prevention system in modern Tianjin. In traditional China, there was no such hospital or clinic that specifically dealt with contagious disease. After the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900, Japan began interfere local affairs by establishing concession and Tianjin Provisional Government with other countries to manage city affairs and public health. In 1902, the Tsing government regained authority towards Tianjin and built its own contagious disease hospital. During the time, there were outbreaks of plague and cholera one after one. At first, contagious disease hospital was more like an isolation hospital, keeping epidemic patients from the society. There was no complete epidemic prevention system yet. The Tsing government built medical schools and many Japanese medical professionals were engaged in local medical education. In 1928, the national government established Ministry of Health and began establishing contagious disease hospitals, bureaus, and policy. The issue of epidemic prevention has become an important part of the government affairs. Meanwhile in Tianjin, people working in this project had studied medicine mostly in Japan or Japanese medical school in China. However, during the period of Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945, these people were assigned in the government occupations by the Japanese. They carried on government affairs not to mention the epidemic prevention system.