Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Prologue: Sun The Perfected One’S Song Of Guarding Life xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. “Conquering The One Hundred Diseases”: Weisheng Before The Twentieth Century 22
8. 2. Health And Disease In Heaven’S Ford 48
9. 3. Medical Encounters And Divergences 76
10. 4. Translating Weisheng In Treaty-Port China 104
11. 5. Transforming Eisei In Meiji Japan 136
12. 6. Deficiency And Sovereignty: Hygienic Modernity In The Occupation Of Tianjin, 1900–1902 165
13. 7. Seen And Unseen: The Urban Landscape And Boundaries Of Weisheng 193
14. 8. Weisheng And The Desire For Modernity 225
15. 9. Japanese Management Of Germs In Tianjin 254
16. 10. Germ Warfare And Patriotic Weisheng 285
17. Conclusion 300
18. Glossary 307
19. Notes 319
20. Bibliography 365
21. Index 397