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Titolo: | Becoming Chinese : passages to modernity and beyond / / edited by Wen-hsin Yeh |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (441 pages) |
Disciplina: | 951.05 |
Soggetto topico: | Cities and towns - China - History - 20th century |
National characteristics, Chinese | |
Soggetto geografico: | China Civilization 20th century Congresses |
Altri autori: | YehWen-Hsin |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Becoming Chinese |
ISBN: | 0-520-92441-X |
1-59734-482-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450089303321 |
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