Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes)

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1095109034 EAN: 9780520240018 ISBN: 0520240014 Label: University of California Press Manufacturer: University of California Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 415 Publication Date: 2004-11-29 Publisher: University of California Press Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Reviews: 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. Illustrations: 8 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables