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

by Ruth Rogaski

Book Overview

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: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"