Constructing the national body: Public health and the nation in nineteenth-century Japan

Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-50

  Burns, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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References (2)

1. William Johnston (1995, 179–80) notes that Nagayo chose the term eisei because the Chinese character for ei originally meant to “police” or “patrol.” Thus, in his understanding, hygiene meant “to police life.”
2. W. G. Beasley (1987) characterizes the treaty port system in this way. The term informal imperialism originated with Fray (1940, 399) and was adopted by Gallagher and Robinson (1953). It also provides the framework for Duus et al. 1989.