Hygienic modernity : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China / Ruth Rogaski.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2004], ©2004.

xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-395) and index.