Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port ChinaPlacing 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 Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"—as it emerged in the complex treaty-port environment of Tianjin. Before the late nineteenth century, weisheng was associated with diverse regimens of diet, meditation, and self-medication. Hygienic Modernity reveals how meanings of weisheng, with the arrival of violent imperialism, shifted from Chinese cosmology to encompass such ideas as national sovereignty, laboratory knowledge, the cleanliness of bodies, and the fitness of races: categories in which the Chinese were often deemed lacking by foreign observers and Chinese elites alike. |
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... vaccinated , and inspected Indian bodies . Particularly during out- breaks of epidemic disease such as bubonic plague , Western medicine and Western methods of disease prevention appear as an " assault on the body , " a violent and ...
... vaccinated , and inspected Indian bodies . Particularly during out- breaks of epidemic disease such as bubonic plague , Western medicine and Western methods of disease prevention appear as an " assault on the body , " a violent and ...
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Contents
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2 HEALTH AND DISEASE IN HEAVENS FORD | 48 |
3 MEDICAL ENCOUNTERS AND DIVERGENCES | 76 |
4 TRANSLATING WEISHENG IN TREATYPORT CHINA | 104 |
5 TRANSFORMING EISEI IN MEIJI JAPAN | 136 |
HYGIENIC MODERNITY IN THE OCCUPATION OF TIANJIN 19001902 | 165 |
THE URBAN LANDSCAPE AND BOUNDARIES OF WEISHENG | 193 |
9 JAPANESE MANAGEMENT OF GERMS IN TIANJIN | 254 |
10 GERM WARFARE AND PATRIOTIC WEISHENG | 285 |
CONCLUSION | 300 |
Glossary | 307 |
Notes | 319 |
Bibliography | 365 |
Index | 397 |
8 WEISHENG AND THE DESIRE FOR MODERNITY | 225 |
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