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 a nd divergences -- Translating weisheng in treaty-port China -- Transfor ming eisei in Meiji Japan -- Deficiency and sovereignty: hygienic moder nity in the occupation of Tianjin, 1900-1902 -- Seen and unseen: the ur ban landscape and boundaries of weisheng -- Weisheng and the desire for modernity -- Japanese management of germs in Tianjin -- Germ warfare a nd patriotic weisheng.

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