Creating Chinese modernity
Subtitle: knowledge and everyday life, 1900-1940
By: edited by Peter Zarrow.
Contributors: Zarrow, Peter Gue.
Series: Studies in modern Chinese history ;; v. 4
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: China -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: enlightenment and living in modern China / Peter Zarrow; value: Zhang Binglin's critique of western modernity: a Chinese view of cultural pluralism / Young-tsu Wong; value: Constitutionalism and the imagination of the state: official views of political reform in the late Qing / Peter Zarrow; value: Lu Xun and terrorism: a reading of revenge and violence in Mara and beyond / Jon Kowallis; value: Merchant discourse on self-interest in modern China / Chi Kong Lai; value: Having it all: patriotism and gracious living in Shenbao's tobacco advertisements, 1919 to 1937 / Weipin Tsai; value: Purely sport or a gambling disgrace? greyhound racing and the formation of modern Shanghai / Ning Jennifer Chang; value: Authority over the body and the modern formation of the body / Jinlin Hwang; value: Leisure, patriotism, and identity: the Chinese career women's club in wartime Shanghai / Ling-ling Lien.