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Becoming Chinese : passages to modernity and beyond

Author: Wen-Hsin Yeh
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Series: Studies on China.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Wen-Hsin Yeh
ISBN: 0520219236 9780520219236 0520222180 9780520222182
OCLC Number: 40838609
Description: x, 435 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
Series Title: Studies on China.
Responsibility: edited by Wen-hsin Yeh.

Abstract:

"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."--Publisher's description.

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