Becoming Chinese : passages to modernity and beyond /
This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of 20th-century Chinese identity. The contributors argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of 20th-century Chinese history.
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Other Authors / Creators: | Yeh, Wen-Hsin. |
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000. |
Series: | Studies on China ;
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: interpreting Chinese modernity, 1900-1950 / Wen-hsin Yeh
- The cultural construction of modernity in urban Shanghai: some preliminary explorations / Leo Ou-fan Lee
- Marketing medicine and advertising dreams in China, 1900-1950 / Sherman Cochran
- "A high place is no better than a low place": the city in the making of modern China / David Strand
- Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928-1937 / William C. Kirby
- Hierarchical modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a model for Catholic community in North China / Richard Madsen
- The grounding of cosmopolitans: merchants and local cultures in Guangdong / Helen F. Siu
- Zhang Taiyan's concept of the individual and modern Chinese identity / Wang Hui
- Crime or punishment? On the forensic discourse of modern Chinese literature / David Der-wei Wang
- Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and retribution in wartime Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman Jr.
- Of authenticity and woman: personal narratives of middle-class women in modern China / Prasenjit Duara
- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's War of Resistance / Paul G. Pickowicz.