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

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

Ruth Rogaski

401 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 m...

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