{"id":5638,"date":"2022-04-11T00:54:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T00:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2022-04-11T00:54:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T00:54:34","slug":"jia-chen-fu-in-atlas-obscura-the-secret-maoist-chinese-operation-to-conquer-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2022\/04\/11\/jia-chen-fu-in-atlas-obscura-the-secret-maoist-chinese-operation-to-conquer-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Jia-Chen Fu in &#8216;Atlas Obscura&#8217;: &#8220;The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation to Conquer Malaria&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/realc.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/jia-chen%20fu.html\">Jia-Chen Fu<\/a>, Associate Professor of Chinese and Affiliated Faculty in the History Department, recently published an article in <em>Atlas Obscura<\/em>. Titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/malaria-treatment-china\">The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation to Conquer Malaria<\/a>,&#8221; the piece recounts the discovery of the most powerful antimalarial drug available today by a young Chinese medical researcher named\u00a0Tu Youyou in the 1960s-&#8217;70s. The breakthrough came during the Cultural Revolution in China and the Vietnam War, context within which Fu situates Youyou&#8217;s signal achievement. Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/malaria-treatment-china\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jia-Chen Fu, Associate Professor of Chinese and Affiliated Faculty in the History Department, recently published an article in Atlas Obscura. Titled &#8220;The Secret Maoist Chinese Operation to Conquer Malaria,&#8221; the piece recounts the discovery of the most powerful antimalarial drug available today by a young Chinese medical researcher named\u00a0Tu Youyou in the 1960s-&#8217;70s. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}