Hygienic modernity [electronic resource] : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China / Ruth Rogaski.
By: Rogaski, Ruth.
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BookSeries: Asia--local studies/global themes: Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004Description: xiv, 401 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Health behavior -- China | Public health -- ChinaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.1/0951/09034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-395) and index.
"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.
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