Class Concepts
Animals who once thrived in the forest and now dwell in the village, usually due to the destruction of their habitat and/or the introduction of humans.
What are "domesticates"?
A cassowary dependent on "foreign food" and that has forgotten how to be a cassowary.
Who is "Reuben"?
The four animals considered the four pests within the campaign.
What are "mosquitoes, flies, sparrows, and rats"?
An idea to demonstrate colonial power over the land, where one can make something into its opposite, often without true purpose or just for show.
What is "desert bloom"?
This person describes observations of the transformation into modernity as "plastic".
Who is Sophie Chao?
A series of demands made by Japan to expand its regional power over China.
What are the "Twenty-One Demands"?
An analogy for uncontrolled proliferation, fakeness, modernity, and the symbolic loss of culture.
What is "plastic"?
Leader of China during the Four Pests campaign.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Period from the First Opium War to 1943 typified by the decline, defeat and political fragmentation of the Qing dynasty.
What is the "Century of Humiliation"?
One would describe the boars dependence on domestication and the pigs desire for the forest as this.
What is the "otherwild"?
Author of "Disease control in China: The curious centrality of evil animals and mass campaigns"
Who is Miriam Gross?
The first of its kind was launched in 1952, to counter germ warfare employed by the USA during the Korean War/
What is a Patriotic Public Health Campaign (PPHC)?