Table of Contents:
  • "Conquering the one hundred diseases": weisheng before the twentieth century
  • Health and disease in Heaven's Ford
  • Medical encounters and divergences
  • Translating weisheng in treaty-port China
  • Transforming eisei in Meiji Japan
  • Deficiency and sovereignty: hygienic modernity in the occupation of Tianjin, 1900-1902
  • Seen and unseen: the urban landscape and boundaries of weisheng
  • Weisheng and the desire for modernity
  • Japanese management of germs in Tianjin
  • Germ warfare and patriotic weisheng.