James Henderson's Shanghai hygiene and the British constitution in early modern China

Authors

Stephanie Villalta Puig, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, Vocational Training CouncilFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2016

DOI

10.1163/9789004319219_003

Abstract

…This chapter analyzes the effect that the Chinese periphery had on the constitution of the British body during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The theme, I argue, is one of caution, in the twofold sense of physical caution as well as civilizational caution. On the theme of caution, the chapter analyzes British hygiene in China because hygiene is the branch of medicine that seeks to prevent and therefore, caution against disease...

Source Publication

Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China

ISBN

9789004319202

First Page

17

Last Page

54

Recommended Citation

Villalta Puig, S. (2016). James Henderson's Shanghai hygiene and the British constitution in early modern China. Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China, 17-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004319219_003