Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
(Part of the Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Series)
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Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng-which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"-as it emerged in the complex treaty-port...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520240014
ISBN13:9780520240018
Release Date:November 2004
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:401 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"
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