Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/WfXZQg0 Hygienic Modernity Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China By: Ruth Rogaski Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520283824, 0520283821 eText ISBN: 9780520930605, 0520930606 Edition: 1st Pages: 415 Copyright year: 2005 Format: PDF Available from $ 34.95 USD SKU 9780520930605 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 environment of Tianjin. Before the late nineteenth century, weisheng was associated with diverse regimens of diet, meditation, and self-medication. Hygienic Modernity 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: categories in which the Chinese were often deemed lacking by foreign observers and Chinese elites alike. Additional ISBNs 9780520930605, 9786612357299, 9781282357297, 9781417585038, 9781597346665, 0520930606, 6612357290, 1282357298, 141758503X, 1597346667, 9780520240018, 9780520283824, 0520240014, 0520283821
