Rogaski, Ruth.

Hygienic modernity meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China / [electronic resource] : Ruth Rogaski. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - xiv, 401 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Asia-Local studies/global themes . - Asia (Columbia University. East Asian Institute) ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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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Health behavior-- China.
Public health-- China.