Hygienic Modernity : Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China

Name: Hygienic Modernity
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520240018
Price: 12800 KES
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ISBN: 9780520240018

by Ruth Rogaski

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Format Hardback

Book Series Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes

ISBN-10 0520240014

ISBN-13 9780520240018

Publisher University of California Press

Imprint University of California Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 29th, 2004

Print length 415 Pages

Weight 986 grams

Dimensions 23.70 x 16.00 x 3.70 cms

Product Classification: Asian history Public health & preventive medicine History of medicine

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Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this work 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.

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