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Chinese rural residents are vulnerable to arthritis and intervertebral disc disease, and the prevalence of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes is rising rapidly. With the existing statistical data, this book systematically reviews the changes of the spectrum of rural diseases in China in recent 100 years, puts forward the social typology of chronic diseases, and then, based on the ethnography of a village, shows the illness experience of rural chronic patients from three aspects: the interpretation framework of diseases, the practice of seeking medical advice, and daily moral life.