1 “...This book offers a biographical, intellectual and academic history of sociology in the late Qing...”

2 “...This book argues for the significance of contagious disease in critical and biographical assessment...”

3 “... by contextualization, namely by some brief biographical information and by the systematic integration of her argument...”

4 “... uses an innovative approach that eschews conventional biographical sketches in favour of allowing...”

5 “... models, concrete assistance is provided, be it phylogenetic-human or individual-biographical. The authors...”