Hygienic Modernity Image close
Hygienic Modernity by Ruth Rogaski
Hygienic Modernity by Ruth Rogaski
Show Hide Adult Content
Hygienic Modernity close

Non-Fiction Books:

Home  
Books  
Non-Fiction  
Professional & Technical  
Medicine  
Medicine: general issues  
Health systems & services

Hygienic Modernity

Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

By:

Format:

Paperback / softback
$103.99
Available from supplier

The item is brand new and in-stock with one of our preferred suppliers. The item will ship from a Mighty Ape warehouse within the timeframe shown.

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
0 in Trolley

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $26.00 with Afterpay Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

  • Around 13-25 June using International Courier

Explore more Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes

See all products in this series

Hygienic Modernity on Hardback by Ruth Rogaski
$237.99
Hygienic Modernity
by Ruth Rogaski ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Nature of the Beasts by Ian Jared Miller
$76.99
The Nature of the Beasts
by Ian Jared Miller ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953 on Hardback by Susan L Glosser
$177.99
Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953
by Susan L Glosser ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Go Nation by Marc L. Moskowitz
$88.99
Go Nation
by Marc L. Moskowitz ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Coming to Terms with the Nation on Hardback by Thomas Mullaney
$234.99
Coming to Terms with the Nation
by Thomas Mullaney ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Tears from Iron on Hardback by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
$236.99
Tears from Iron
by Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Anyuan by Elizabeth Perry
$74.99
Anyuan
by Elizabeth Perry ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Anyuan on Hardback by Elizabeth Perry
$212.99
Anyuan
by Elizabeth Perry ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Imaging Disaster on Hardback by Gennifer Weisenfeld
$194.99
Imaging Disaster
by Gennifer Weisenfeld ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Taiko Boom on Hardback by Shawn Bender
$260.99
Taiko Boom
by Shawn Bender ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Moral Nation on Hardback by Miriam Kingsberg
$165.99
Moral Nation
by Miriam Kingsberg ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan on Hardback by Marcia Yonemoto
$112.99
$115.95
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan
by Marcia Yonemoto ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Mabiki on Hardback by Fabian Drixler
$240.99
Mabiki
by Fabian Drixler ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Nature of the Beasts on Hardback by Ian Jared Miller
$184.99
The Nature of the Beasts
by Ian Jared Miller ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Speaking to History by Paul A. Cohen
$94.99
Speaking to History
by Paul A. Cohen ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Taiko Boom by Shawn Bender
$88.99
Taiko Boom
by Shawn Bender ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

Description

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.

Author Biography:

Ruth Rogaski is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
Release date Australia
May 29th, 2014
Author
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
8 b-w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables
Pages
420
Dimensions
152x229x30
ISBN-13
9780520283824
Product ID
22305014

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Explore more by Ruth Rogaski

See all books by this author

Knowing Manchuria on Hardback by Ruth Rogaski
$77.99
Knowing Manchuria
by Ruth Rogaski ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

Recommended for you

Recommended from your browsing history

Help & options

Filed under...

Books >
Non-Fiction >
Professional & Technical >
Medicine >
Medicine: general issues >
Health systems & services