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Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Ruth Rogaski
Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
Ruth Rogaski
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.
415 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 29, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520240018 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 415 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 237 × 37 mm · 986 g |