Health, Hygiene and Diets: Medical Missionaries and the Daily Life of Shanghai Residents (1870-1938)

Authors

  • Jiayu GONG Department of History, Shanghai University, No. 99 Shangda Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai, P. R. China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37819/ijsws.21.145

Keywords:

Medical Missionary, Intercultural Communication, Shanghai Hygiene, Diets and Health, Daily life

Abstract

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, China was the main area of western medical missions. Medical missionaries, one of the largest cross-cultural groups, left a wealth of records in a foreign land. In this article the author explored how the housing, environment, drink and diets habits of British medical missionaries in China spread the western medical knowledge, and how the medical missionaries constantly recognized, interpreted and improved the health concept toward Chinese in their daily life. The intercultural communication of medical knowledge between China and the West enriched the western public health theory on the one hand, and promoted the establishment of modern public health system in China on the other hand.

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Published

2021-12-09

How to Cite

GONG, J. . (2021). Health, Hygiene and Diets: Medical Missionaries and the Daily Life of Shanghai Residents (1870-1938). International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, 21, 121–140. https://doi.org/10.37819/ijsws.21.145

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Section

Church History in the West and in China