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

Author/creator Rogaski, Ruth
Other author/creatorAmerican Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Descriptionxiv, 401 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Series Asia--local studies/global themes
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 365-395) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003019001
ISBN0520240014 (cloth : alk. paper)