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Chieko Nakajima tells the story of China’s unfolding modernity, exploring changing ideas, practices, and systems related to health and body in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Shanghai. She explains how local customs fashioned and constrained public health and, in turn, how hygienic modernity helped shape local cultures and behavior.

Body Society and Nation

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 02/07/2018
      ISBN13: 9780674987173, 978-0674987173
      ISBN10: 0674987179
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      Asian history History of medicine Public health and preventive medicine

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      Book Synopsis
      Chieko Nakajima tells the story of China’s unfolding modernity, exploring changing ideas, practices, and systems related to health and body in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Shanghai. She explains how local customs fashioned and constrained public health and, in turn, how hygienic modernity helped shape local cultures and behavior.

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