Hygienic modernity : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China /

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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Tác giả chính: Rogaski, Ruth
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2004.
Loạt:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 9.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn8sd
Mục lục:
  • "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.