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

ISBN: 0520240014

ISBN13: 9780520240018

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...

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