List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Sun the Perfected One's Song of Guarding Life Introduction 1. "Conquering the One Hundred Diseases": Weisheng before the Twentieth Century 2. Health and Disease in Heaven's Ford 3. Medical Encounters and Divergences 4. Translating Weisheng in Treaty-Port China 5. Transforming Eisei in Meiji Japan 6. Deficiency and Sovereignty: Hygienic Modernity in the Occupation of Tianjin, 1900--1902 7. Seen and Unseen: The Urban Landscape and Boundaries of Weisheng 8. Weisheng and the Desire for Modernity 9. Japanese Management of Germs in Tianjin 10. Germ Warfare and Patriotic Weisheng Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
Ruth Rogaski is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
“Rogaski has written a splendid book, multilayered, harmonious in
its narrative voice, both lucid and theoretically sophisticated,
able to hold the attention of specialist and generalist alike. . .
. In Rogaski’s hands ‘hygienic modernity’ turns out to be a
brilliant thematic vehicle for talking about the transformation of
a city in the twentieth century, able to link state projects,
material culture, and everyday ways of living. Moreover, the clear
prose and adroit examples make the book extremely readable, while
the author’s sensitivity to alternative theoretical and
interpretive possibilities sustains an intellectually complex
framework.”
*Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies*
"By exploring both the transformations that took place in the
understanding of weisheng [protecting life/vitality] and
the changing nature of the lives of the people of Tianjin, Rogaski
offers a nuanced picture of Chinese society during a century of
tremendous upheaval. Hygienic Modernity is an important and
fascinating book. It should be read by all scholars interested in
the histories of modern China and Japan and by those investigating
the development of public health in East Asia."
*Social History of Medicine*
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