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

by Ruth Rogaski

2004 415 pages eng

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 Chines…

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