Hygienic Modernity
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Hygienic Modernity
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Hygienic Modernity, published in 2004, is an anthropological work in ten chapters by Ruth Rogaski that describes the Chinese conceptualization of hygiene, or weisheng, over the course of a century as a national value as well as the central vehicle for modernization. The book's body of politico-cultural evidence presents the emergence of the medicalized view of China as a sick, deficient nation, weakened by a semicolonial past in the early 1900s, as well as the resulting internalization of said n
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2004 anthropological work by Ruth Rogaski
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