Becoming Chinese : passages to modernity and beyond /

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Other Authors / Creators:Yeh, Wen-Hsin.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
Series:Studies on China ; 23.
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Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction Interpreting Chinese Modernity, 1900-1950
  • Part 1. The City and the Modern
  • 1. The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai: Some Preliminary Explorations
  • 2. Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900-1950
  • 3. "a High Place is No Better Than a Low Place": the City in the Making of Modern China
  • 4. Engineering China: Birth of the Developmental State, 1928-1937
  • 5. Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China
  • 6. The Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong
  • Part 2. The Nation and the Self
  • 7. Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity
  • 8. Crime or Punishment? on the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature
  • 9. Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai
  • 10. Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China
  • 11. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance
  • Contributors
  • Index