{"product_id":"hygienic-modernity-meanings-of-health-and-disease-in-treaty-port-china-volume-9-paperback","title":"Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China Volume 9 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Rogaski\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlacing 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, \u003ci\u003eweisheng\u003c\/i\u003e--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, \u003ci\u003eweisheng \u003c\/i\u003ewas associated with diverse regimens of diet, meditation, and self-medication. \u003ci\u003eHygienic Modernity \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how meanings of \u003ci\u003eweisheng, \u003c\/i\u003ewith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly conceived and superbly researched, this excellent study charts the transnational forces and circulating discourses on health that helped constitute a modern concept of hygiene in China. Over the course of the twentieth century the state, scientists, physicians, and the military all came to participate in the health management of aggregated populations, and eventually in the fitness of the race and nation. Insightfully placed within the context of a global modernity and the layered imperialisms of Japan and the West, this is transnational history writing at its best. Indeed, it is one of the finest books we now have on modernity in East Asia.--Takashi Fujitani, University of California, San Diego, and author of \u003ci\u003ePerilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRogaski examines health and disease in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, from the years before it was opened as a treaty port to the early People's Republic. She shows how weisheng, or hygienic modernity, was adopted by foreigners and local elites in the service of imperialism, national strength, and revolution. \u003ci\u003eHygienic Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new intellectual ground in our understanding of imperialism, providing local texture and transnational reach. It is ingeniously researched and elegantly argued.--Gail Hershatter, author of \u003ci\u003eDangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly conceived and superbly researched, this excellent study charts the transnational forces and circulating discourses on health that helped constitute a modern concept of hygiene in China. Over the course of the twentieth century the state, scientists, physicians, and the military all came to participate in the health management of aggregated populations, and eventually in the fitness of the race and nation. Insightfully placed within the context of a global modernity and the layered imperialisms of Japan and the West,\" this is transnational history writing at its best. Indeed, it is one of the finest books we now have on modernity in East Asia.\"--Takashi Fujitani, University of California, San Diego, and author of \u003ci\u003ePerilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rogaski examines health and disease in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, from the years before it was opened as a treaty port to the early People's Republic. She shows how weisheng, or \"hygienic modernity,\" was adopted by foreigners and local elites in the service of imperialism, national strength, and revolution. \u003ci\u003eHygienic Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new intellectual ground in our understanding of imperialism, providing local texture and transnational reach. It is ingeniously researched and elegantly argued.\"--Gail Hershatter, author of \u003ci\u003eDangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Rogaski\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 420\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 29, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390905835622,"sku":"9780520283824","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/U3loRUJqczhKdTcvMVY3V0EwbDVldz09.webp?v=1775123424","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/hygienic-modernity-meanings-of-health-and-disease-in-treaty-port-china-volume-9-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}