Becoming Chinese

Passages to Modernity and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness should serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China's modern transformation up to the 1950s. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual's quest for autonomy.Drawing upon new archival sources, these theoretically informed, thoroughly revisionist essays focus on topics such as Western-inspired modernity, urban cosmopolitanism, consumer culture, gender relationships, interchanges between city and countryside, and the growing impact of the state on the lives of individuals. The volume makes an important contribution toward a postsocialist understanding of twentieth-century China.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-04-21
Mått152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies on China
Antal sidor445
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520222182

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: Interpreting Chinese Modernity, 1900-1950Wen-hsin Yeh PART ONE • THE CITY AND THE MODERN1. The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai:Some Preliminary ExplorationsLeo Ou-fon Lee 2. Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900-1950Sherman Cochran 3· "A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place": The City in the Making of Modern ChinaDavid Strand 4· Engineering China:Birth of the Developmental State, 1928~1937William C. Kirby 5· Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North ChinaRichard Madsen 6. The Grounding of Cosmopolitans:Merchants and Local Cultures in GuangdongHelen R Siu PART TWO ·THE NATION AND THE SELF7· Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese IdentityWang Hui 8. Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese LiteratureDavid Der-wei Wang 9. Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime ShanghaiFrederic Wakeman Jr. 10. Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern ChinaPrasenjit Duara 11. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of ResistancePaul G. Pickowicz GLOSSARY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX