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Hygienic Modernity

- Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China

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Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this work 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.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780520240018
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 415
  • Udgivet:
  • 29. november 2004
  • Størrelse:
  • 160x237x37 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 986 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 6. november 2024

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Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this work 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.

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