Format:
X, 435 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0520219236
,
0520222180
Series Statement:
Studies on China 23
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Outcome of a workshop held in Monterey in October 1993, and a conference held in Oakland in June 1995
,
Acknowledgements
,
Introduction: interpreting Chinese modernity, 1900-1950
,
The cultural construction of modernity in urban Shanghai: some preliminary explorations
,
Marketing medicine and advertising dreams in China, 1900-1950
,
"A high place is no better than a low place": the city in the making of modern China
,
Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928-1937
,
Hierarchical modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a model for Catholic community in North China
,
The grounding of cosmopolitans: merchants and local cultures in Guangdong
,
Zhang Taiyan's concept of the individual and modern Chinese identity
,
Crime or punishment? On the forensic discourse of modern Chinese literature
,
Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and retribution in wartime Shanghai
,
Of authenticity and woman: personal narratives of middle-class women in modern China
,
Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's War of Resistance
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
China
;
Zivilisation
;
Stadt
;
Nation
;
Individuum
;
Geschichte 1900-1950
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
