TY - BOOK ID - 77862644 TI - Hygienic modernity PY - 2004 SN - 0520930606 9786612357299 1282357298 1597346667 9780520930605 9781597346665 141758503X 9781417585038 0520240014 9780520240018 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Public health KW - Health behavior KW - asia. KW - china. KW - chinese history. KW - chinese medicine. KW - cleanliness. KW - confucius. KW - cosmology. KW - diet. KW - discrimination. KW - disease. KW - east asia. KW - eastern medicine. KW - ethnicity. KW - health and wellness. KW - health care. KW - health. KW - history of medicine. KW - hygiene. KW - imperialism. KW - japan. KW - japanese history. KW - madness. KW - medication. KW - medicine. KW - meditation. KW - modernity. KW - nonfiction. KW - personal hygiene. KW - prejudice. KW - public health. KW - qing. KW - race. KW - racial science. KW - racism. KW - sanitation. KW - science. KW - sovereignty. KW - tianjin. KW - treaty port. KW - urban history. KW - weisheng. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77862644 AB - 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. ER -