(Forth coming)

The book examines health sovereignty through a multi-dimensional framework encompassing juridical recognition, political and financial autonomy, epistemic independence, and material self-sufficiency. Drawing on China’s experience of exclusion from and reintegration into global health governance from 1949 to the 1980s, the book traces how socialist health innovation and indigenous capacity building, including primary healthcare delivery, knowledge production, and pharmaceutical research, development, and manufacturing, forged the foundations of genuine health sovereignty, enabling China to leverage its capacities to engage global health governance on its own terms. It offers a historically grounded framework for rethinking sovereignty and equitable global health partnerships under contemporary conditions of geopolitical fragmentation and renewed contestation of the international health order.