Hygienic Modernity : Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
by
Ruth Rogaski
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
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 historyPublic health & preventive medicineHistory 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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