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...Michael Bourdaghs Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene Michael Bourdaghs Reading Broken Commandment Broken Commandment (novel) (Shimazaki Toson). 'The celebrated work of recent...

... their now demonized other, the bound feet, have been eternally banished. As the modern replacement of the stigmatized bound feet, hands now emerge as the female body part associated with civilization, progress, hygienic modernity, and glamour and grace of intelligent and independent women who embody the new...

... understanding of hygiene is intimately connected with environmental degradation, a perceived “dirtiness” that is not really of their own making. Grounded in anthropological field research in rural Henan, it argues that the lack of any infrastructure to dispose of trash is core to rural environmental problems...

... to study military hygiene. There, he became interested in the emergent science of microbes and participated in the debates around Koch and Pettenkoffer, as well as in military maneuvers and diplomatic missions. He also read widely in German...

... and contributes to them with carefully theorized empirical studies of medicine and disease in Asia. Borrowing from Michael Bourdaghs’s essay, we have titled this issue “Empires of Hygiene The essays that are included, which draw...

..., and in connection with the population decrease, sought the causes for low birth rates and high death and disease rates in customs and practices related to hygiene and sex. In the case of hygiene, the group investigated diet, funerary customs...

..., and in place of their formal arguments on the state, such journals began actively to take up topics like marriage, the home, sexuality, hygiene, and health. As Kazuko Sakamoto “Love and Eugenics” in May Fourth Movement Discourse 331 Ono...

... Warwick . 2006 . Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Arnold David . 1993 . Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India . Berkeley : University...

...-­century, actively embracing and shaping discourses on hygiene and medicine first brought about by imperialist violence.12 Works such as Hwang’s and Rogaski’s convincingly suggest that it is no longer possible to understand China’s experience...

... of the world.gA new therapeutic optimism became the means of forgetting the unhomely moment of leprosy through the creation of a hygienic, recovering civic subject. In this essay, then, I look at the medical framing of leprosy and the development...

... to eliminate bad habits and how to improve productivity. Every Sunday, all the villagers listen to a lecture on one of the topics of virtue, wisdom, community, frugality, and hygiene.” Wu Shan's model new village emphasized the educational function of the self-sufficient and self-governing community...

... Mukōjima studio expressionism References Bordwell David . 1988 . Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Bourdaghs Michael . 1998 . “ The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene .” positions 6 , no. 3 : 637 – 73 . Dower...

... it on the way” (Phuoc, interview by author, April 2017). While on balance the middle classes enjoy street food, opinions differ. As Earl ( 2014 : 145) notes, for some middle-class women in Ho Chi Minh City, “eating on the street was not an option; they were repelled by a perceived lack of hygiene, concerned...

... hygiene and table manners, suzhi is commonly found lacking in people who migrate from poorer, interior provinces such as Anhui to the wealthier metropolises and industrial centers on the coast. Such migrants come from a variety of backgrounds...

... of particular forms and spaces of modern hygiene and rationality; (2) security and stability of male presence in the workplace versus processes of change necessary for women’s entry into the same workplaces; (3) expression of childhood/youth in the next...

..., a library, a children s playground, an audi- torium, and a series of water markers for swimmers, involving only whites except for the native labor. In Kramer s argument, the entire escapade denotes a political dimension to health and hygiene inextricably entangled with the logic of empire, with financing...

... Foot Fetish to Hand Fetish: Hygiene, Class, and the New Woman” takes up the modern girl and her hands. Repeatedly returning to the female pro- tagonist of a Xiao Hong short story, “Hands,” Yang builds a case that body parts, hands in this case...

... to the overlapping of pedagogic essays and new fashion, and the importance of the new discussions of hygiene and good housekeeping. However, the essay is at pains to point out that just as the Enlightenment project had declared and illustrated what modern...

... in a context in which, as Ashley Carruthers has shown, consumption always also has a statist effect? The issue ends with Wang Min’an’s meditation on “Body Politics in the SARS Crisis” in the PRC last year.The panic over the hygienic space...

..., introduced to China in the early 1800s by medical missionaries, were devel- oping simultaneously with germ theory, anesthetics, and, later, concepts of hygiene. These ideologies worked to symbolically fuse the association of China...