Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015- Front Cover -- Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Primary sources -- Introduction: modernization and public health -- International and transnational influence -- Chinese modernizers, modern medicine, and public health -- Government policies and health institutions -- Health education and propaganda -- Summary of chapters -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Public health: a modern concept of national power -- Introduction -- From salubrious cities to polluted treaty ports -- Hygiene and public health: a divide of foreigners and Chinese -- Missionaries and Western medicine -- The Boxer Uprising, public health and modern reforms -- Social Darwinism and national strength -- The Manchurian plague and national sovereignty -- Modern prevention measures and traditional social customs -- Public health and Western medicine -- Health education campaigns: public health and national strength -- Government policy, modern medicine, and public health -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Science, public health and national renaissance -- Introduction -- The Science Society of China and the new culture of science -- Medical and social understanding of the human body -- Peking Union Medical College: an American outpost of medical science in China -- 1917-1918 plague: epidemic prevention and popularization of science -- John B. Grant and the training of public health professionals -- Sanitary control, vital statistic collection, and tensions in the community -- Maternal care and midwifery training -- Health stations in urban and rural China -- State medicine and national health -- Conclusion -- Notes