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[Asia middle ages] What were the effects of the black death on China and on expatriate Chinese? Was any association made between the Chinese and the plague?
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The very first historic outbreak happened in China. The plague spread along the Mongolian Empire, its armies' supply lines, and through the Silk Road itself. There are numerous Chinese records on disease and social disruption survive from this period, but no one has studied these sources in depth.