Becoming Chinese : Passages to Modernity and Beyond /
Yeh, Wen-Hsin,editor.
Yeh, Wen-Hsin.
Berkeley ; London : University of California Press,
c2000.
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.
"Outcome of a workshop held in Monterey in October 1993, and a conference held in Oakland in June 1995"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Cities and towns
National characteristics, Chinese.