Ruth Rogaski
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 288454 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ruth Rogaski |
| NOMBRES | Ruth |
| APELLIDO | Rogaski |
| FIRMA | ROGASKI R |
| AFILIACIONES | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 123 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A Medicated Empire
Nashville Qi? Chinese Medicine in an American Heartland
This article shares preliminary results from current research on Chinese medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, a city in the American South known both as “Music City, USA” and “The Buckle of the Bible Belt.” The author has interviewed dozens of patients and practitioners in Nashville to understand how Chinese medicine came to the city, what styles of practice are present, and whether or not new understandings of Chinese medicine’s fundamental concept…
The Manchurian Plague and Covid-19
In this article, I explore the historical resonances between China’s 1911 pneumonic plague and our current situation with COVID-19. At the turn of the 20th century, China was labeled “the Sick Man of the Far East”: a once-powerful country that had become burdened by opium addiction, infectious disease, and an ineffective government. In 1911, this weakened China faced an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Manchuria that killed more than 60 000 people…
Hygienic Modernity
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng —which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"—as it emerged in the complex treaty-p…
Knowing a Sentient Mountain
Mount Paektu/Changbai is a massive stratovolcano situated on the current border between North Korea and China, in a region that has historically lain at the edges of competing Eurasian polities. Formed by a past of dramatic eruptions, Mount Paektu/Changbai has long been held as a powerful, sentient entity by those living near it, but the mountain's unique geographical features and distance from political centres rendered it extremely elusive as a…
Chapter 3. Hygienic Modernity in Tianjin
Remaking the Chinese City
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Neither Donkey nor Horse is a tremendous accomplishment that marks Sean Hsiang-lin Lei as a leading historian of Chinese medicine and a major thinker in STS. The book draws together years of Lei's
Grace Yen Shen. Unearthing the Nation
This study is about modern China’s first generation of professional geologists: their work, their discoveries, but most importantly, their relationship to the geo-body of China. Readers looking for detailed discussions of rocks and geological formations might be disappointed. Instead, Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China provides an important case study of how a community of non-Western scientists positioned i…
Other-Worldly
Chinese medicine can be found in many places around the world. For example, the city where I live, Nashville, Tennessee, is known both as “Music City USA” for its country music scene and as the “bu
Hygienic ModernityMeanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this book reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as “hygiene,” “sanitary,” “health,” or “public health”—as it emerged in the complex treaty-po…
Matthew H. Sommer. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford
This path-breaking book describes how the Qing state dealt with jian, a Chinese term which the author translates as “illicit sexual intercourse.” Emblazoned on the jacket of the book is the Chinese character for jian, an ideograph most commonly encountered today in the compound word “ qiangjian, ” or rape. The sight of this character is so shocking (and suggestive) to modern Chinese sensibilities that I had to take the jacket off while on a recen…
Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity
According to official PRC reports, on the night of April 4, 1952, hundreds of small rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county. The next morning, villagers in this remote corner of western Heilongjiang province awoke to find sickly voles scattered in haystacks, piled on rooftops, and even squirming on kangs next to slumbering women and children. Government reports praise the inherent wisdom and decisiveness of the Gannan villagers. Well-verse…
The Salt Merchants of Tianjin
For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial development, and social change of the city of Tianjin. As early as the fifteenth century, this small yet important group of citizens negotiated with the state as revenue-farmers, developing and defending their businesses and customs while evolving their own urban culture. In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile acti…
Beyond Benevolence
Beyond Benevolence: A Confucian Women's Shelter in Treaty-Port China Ruth Rogaski In the spring of 1878, at the height of one of the worst famines in history, merchants and officials from South China estabUshed a home for widows and orphans in the northern city of Tianjin. The founders called their institution the Hall for Spreading Benevolence [Guangren tang], claiming that through this act of charity, they would extend the benevolence of the em…
Hygienic Modernity
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng —which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"—as it emerged in the complex treaty-p…
Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity
According to official PRC reports, on the night of April 4, 1952, hundreds of small rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county. The next morning, villagers in this remote corner of western Heilongjiang province awoke to find sickly voles scattered in haystacks, piled on rooftops, and even squirming on kangs next to slumbering women and children. Government reports praise the inherent wisdom and decisiveness of the Gannan villagers. Well-verse…
Remaking the Chinese City
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
The Manchurian Plague and Covid-19
In this article, I explore the historical resonances between China’s 1911 pneumonic plague and our current situation with COVID-19. At the turn of the 20th century, China was labeled “the Sick Man of the Far East”: a once-powerful country that had become burdened by opium addiction, infectious disease, and an ineffective government. In 1911, this weakened China faced an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Manchuria that killed more than 60 000 people…
Knowing a Sentient Mountain
Mount Paektu/Changbai is a massive stratovolcano situated on the current border between North Korea and China, in a region that has historically lain at the edges of competing Eurasian polities. Formed by a past of dramatic eruptions, Mount Paektu/Changbai has long been held as a powerful, sentient entity by those living near it, but the mountain's unique geographical features and distance from political centres rendered it extremely elusive as a…
Beyond Benevolence
Beyond Benevolence: A Confucian Women's Shelter in Treaty-Port China Ruth Rogaski In the spring of 1878, at the height of one of the worst famines in history, merchants and officials from South China estabUshed a home for widows and orphans in the northern city of Tianjin. The founders called their institution the Hall for Spreading Benevolence [Guangren tang], claiming that through this act of charity, they would extend the benevolence of the em…
Matthew H. Sommer. Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Stanford
This path-breaking book describes how the Qing state dealt with jian, a Chinese term which the author translates as “illicit sexual intercourse.” Emblazoned on the jacket of the book is the Chinese character for jian, an ideograph most commonly encountered today in the compound word “ qiangjian, ” or rape. The sight of this character is so shocking (and suggestive) to modern Chinese sensibilities that I had to take the jacket off while on a recen…
Nature, Annihilation, and Modernity
According to official PRC reports, on the night of April 4, 1952, hundreds of small rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county. The next morning, villagers in this remote corner of western Heilongjiang province awoke to find sickly voles scattered in haystacks, piled on rooftops, and even squirming on kangs next to slumbering women and children. Government reports praise the inherent wisdom and decisiveness of the Gannan villagers. Well-verse…
The Salt Merchants of Tianjin
For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial development, and social change of the city of Tianjin. As early as the fifteenth century, this small yet important group of citizens negotiated with the state as revenue-farmers, developing and defending their businesses and customs while evolving their own urban culture. In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile acti…
Hygienic ModernityMeanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this book reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng—which has been rendered into English as “hygiene,” “sanitary,” “health,” or “public health”—as it emerged in the complex treaty-po…
Other-Worldly
Chinese medicine can be found in many places around the world. For example, the city where I live, Nashville, Tennessee, is known both as “Music City USA” for its country music scene and as the “bu
Grace Yen Shen. Unearthing the Nation
This study is about modern China’s first generation of professional geologists: their work, their discoveries, but most importantly, their relationship to the geo-body of China. Readers looking for detailed discussions of rocks and geological formations might be disappointed. Instead, Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China provides an important case study of how a community of non-Western scientists positioned i…
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Neither Donkey nor Horse is a tremendous accomplishment that marks Sean Hsiang-lin Lei as a leading historian of Chinese medicine and a major thinker in STS. The book draws together years of Lei's
Chapter 3. Hygienic Modernity in Tianjin
Remaking the Chinese City
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese …
Knowing a Sentient Mountain
Mount Paektu/Changbai is a massive stratovolcano situated on the current border between North Korea and China, in a region that has historically lain at the edges of competing Eurasian polities. Formed by a past of dramatic eruptions, Mount Paektu/Changbai has long been held as a powerful, sentient entity by those living near it, but the mountain's unique geographical features and distance from political centres rendered it extremely elusive as a…
Hygienic Modernity
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng —which has been rendered into English as "hygiene," "sanitary," "health," or "public health"—as it emerged in the complex treaty-p…
The Manchurian Plague and Covid-19
In this article, I explore the historical resonances between China’s 1911 pneumonic plague and our current situation with COVID-19. At the turn of the 20th century, China was labeled “the Sick Man of the Far East”: a once-powerful country that had become burdened by opium addiction, infectious disease, and an ineffective government. In 1911, this weakened China faced an outbreak of pneumonic plague in Manchuria that killed more than 60 000 people…
Nashville Qi? Chinese Medicine in an American Heartland
This article shares preliminary results from current research on Chinese medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, a city in the American South known both as “Music City, USA” and “The Buckle of the Bible Belt.” The author has interviewed dozens of patients and practitioners in Nashville to understand how Chinese medicine came to the city, what styles of practice are present, and whether or not new understandings of Chinese medicine’s fundamental concept…
A Medicated Empire
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