Hygienic modernity : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China / Ruth Rogaski.
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chines...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
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| Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
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Table of Contents:
- "Conquering the one hundred diseases": weisheng before the twentieth century
- Health and disease in Heaven's Ford
- Medical encounters and divergences
- Translating weisheng in treaty-port China
- Transforming eisei in Meiji Japan
- Deficiency and sovereignty: hygienic modernity in the occupation of Tianjin, 1900-1902
- Seen and unseen: the urban landscape and boundaries of weisheng
- Weisheng and the desire for modernity
- Japanese management of germs in Tianjin
- Germ warfare and patriotic weisheng.