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From protecting life to defending the nation: The emergence of public health in Tianjin, 1859-1953.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From protecting life to defending the nation: The emergence of public health in Tianjin, 1859-1953./
Author:	Rogaski, Ruth.
Description:	341 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06, Section: A, page: 2625.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-06A.
Subject:	Asian history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9632507

From protecting life to defending the nation: The emergence of public health in Tianjin, 1859-1953.
Rogaski, Ruth.

From protecting life to defending the nation: The emergence of public health in Tianjin, 1859-1953. - 341 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06, Section: A, page: 2625.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1996.

This dissertation examines the shifting meaning and practice of weisheng (health, hygiene, literally "protecting life") in the northern Chinese treaty-port of Tianjin from the late Qing to the early years of the People's Republic. Originally defined as techniques for illness-prevention practiced by the individual, the concept of weisheng expanded along with the expanding power of the state throughout the first decades of the twentieth century, finally being incorporated into the term gonggong weisheng (public health), a politically charged web of interrelations which encompassed the individual, the city, and the nation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Asian history.

From protecting life to defending the nation: The emergence of public health in Tianjin, 1859-1953.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the shifting meaning and practice of weisheng (health, hygiene, literally "protecting life") in the northern Chinese treaty-port of Tianjin from the late Qing to the early years of the People's Republic. Originally defined as techniques for illness-prevention practiced by the individual, the concept of weisheng expanded along with the expanding power of the state throughout the first decades of the twentieth century, finally being incorporated into the term gonggong weisheng (public health), a politically charged web of interrelations which encompassed the individual, the city, and the nation.
520 $a The study begins with the entrance of Western medicine in Tianjin in 1859, and follows with a comparison of Chinese and Western strategies for health in the nineteenth-century city. The study then considers the fragmented nature of public services in the late Qing, a situation due in part to the particular social dynamics between elite merchants, foreigners, and Qing officials. Competing interests between these groups limited the formation of a unified urban identity for Tianjin and hampered the formation of meaningful services for the city as a whole. Ultimately the individual, not the community or the state, was responsible for the protection of his or her own health.
520 $a The dissertation then examines the impact of the 1900-1902 foreign occupation of Tianjin and the establishment of a municipal sanitary police. Beginning in the New Policies period and continuing through the rule of the Nationalists, successive Chinese modernizing administrations found this model of state-centered public health appealing but difficult to enact. Throughout the 1920s and 30s, attempts at creating an arena for state action against a microbiological enemy met with considerable difficulties arising from limited funds, competing interests, and popular resistance. It was only after 1949, when faced with the threat of American germ warfare, that the Communist administration in Tianjin was able to effectively combine nationalism, germ theory, and public health to mobilize individuals in the Patriotic Hygiene Campaign of 1953.
520 $a The dissertation argues that in the case of "semi-colonial" Chinese cities such as Tianjin, Western public health theories and policies were adopted and employed by Chinese elites as a means to both expand the reach of the state and to assert China's political autonomy in the face of growing Western encroachment.
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