- 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
- Tables