新书：《身体，社会和民族：上海公共卫生与城市文化的塑造》

书名：Body, Society, and Nation

The Creation of Public Health and Urban Culture in Shanghai

作者：Chieko Nakajima

出版社：Harvard University Press

出版时间：July 2018

价格：$45.00 • £32.95 • €40.50

ISBN 9780674987173

本书简介

Body, Society, and Nation tells the story of China’s unfolding modernity by exploring the changing ideas, practices, and systems related to health and body in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Shanghai. The pursuit of good health loomed large in Chinese political, social, and economic life. Yet, “good health” had a range of associations beyond individual well-being. It was also an integral part of Chinese nation-building, a goal of charitable activities, a notable outcome of Western medical science, a marker of modern civilization, and a commercial catchphrase. With the advent of Western powers, Chinese notions about personal hygiene and the body gradually expanded. This transformation was complicated by indigenous medical ideas, preexisting institutions and social groups, and local cultures and customs.

This study explores the many ways that members of the various strata of Shanghai society experienced and understood multiple meanings of health and body within their everyday lives. Chieko Nakajima traces the institutions they established, the regulations they implemented, and the practices they brought to the city as part of efforts to promote health. In doing so, she explains how local practices and customs fashioned and constrained public health and, in turn, how hygienic modernity helped shape and develop local cultures and influenced people’s behavior

作者简介

Chieko Nakajima is an independent scholar who has taught at the University of Michigan, DePaul University, and Assumption College.

Research interests: Modern Chinese history; urban studies; history of medicine; history of Taiwan

目录

List of Tables and Figures*

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Western Medicine and Science in China

Body, Society, and State in Republican China

Colonialism in Shanghai

An Overview

1. Caring for the Sick, Helping the Poor: The Development of Hospitals in Shanghai

Christianity and Medical Care: Missionary Hospitals

Seasonal Diseases and Elite Activism: Summer-Disease Hospitals

Chinese Medicine and Western System: Traditional Chinese Hospitals

Conclusion

2. Protecting Life, Controlling the City: The Origins and Development of the Shanghai Municipal Public Health Bureau

The Public Health Administration of the Nanjing Government

Public Health Administration in Prewar Shanghai

Shanghai Public Health Bureau during the War

Conclusion

3. Teaching about Health, Mobilizing the Masses: Hygiene Campaigns in Shanghai

From Community Service to State-Sponsored Event

Campaign Strategies

Conclusion

4. Selling Hygiene, Supporting Nation: Health, Hygiene, and Commercial Culture

Development of Light Industries and Interest in Chemistry

Ideals of Clean Bodies, Public Health, and a Strong Nation

Personal Hygiene Items in Commercial Advertisements

The Sociocultural Significance of Commodities

Doing Business in Shanghai: Fang Yexian and Chen Diexian

Conclusion

Conclusion

Health and Hygiene in post-1949 China

Reorganizing Medical-Care Facilities

Organizing Hygiene Campaigns

Science, Policing, and Mass Mobilization Programs

Appendix 1: Shanghai and Its Foreign Concessions

Appendix 2: The Lecture Outline for the 1942 Summer Campaign

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

* Tables and Figures

Tables

2.1 Cholera outbreak of 1932

Figures

0.1 Street sweeping

0.2 Quaker Oatmeal

0.3 Vita Spermin

3.1 Malaria and mosquitoes

3.2 Microorganisms

3.3 Expectoration (cartoon)

3.4 Expectoration (poster)

3.5 Promiscuous urination (poster)

3.6 Promiscuous urination (cartoon)

4.1 Invincible brand toothpaste

4.2 Tiger brand medical soap

4.3 Pure and White toothpaste

4.4 “Everyday Life”

4.5 Hammer brand soap of Nanyang

4.6 Hygiene campaign and personal hygiene items