Hygienic modernity : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China / Ruth Rogaski.
- Rogaski, Ruth
- Date:
- [2004], ©2004
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About this work
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004], ©2004.
Physical description
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
"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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-395) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.