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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450089303321

Titolo

Becoming Chinese : passages to modernity and beyond / / edited by Wen-hsin Yeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2000

ISBN

0-520-92441-X

1-59734-482-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 pages)

Collana

Studies on China ; ; 23

Altri autori (Persone)

YehWen-Hsin

Disciplina

951.05

Soggetti

Cities and towns - China - History - 20th century

National characteristics, Chinese

China Civilization 20th century Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Outcome of a workshop held in Monterey in October 1993, and a conference held in Oakland in June 1995"--Acknowledgements.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.