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UNINA9910450089303321 |
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Titolo |
Becoming Chinese : passages to modernity and beyond / / edited by Wen-hsin Yeh |
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Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2000 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-92441-X |
1-59734-482-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (441 pages) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns - China - History - 20th century |
National characteristics, Chinese |
China Civilization 20th century Congresses |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Outcome of a workshop held in Monterey in October 1993, and a conference held in Oakland in June 1995"--Acknowledgements. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Interpreting Chinese Modernity, ; 1. The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai: Some Preliminary Explorations; 2. Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, ; 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, ; 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 |
7. Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity8. 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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