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Informationen zum Autor Wen-hsin Yeh is Professor of History and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California! Berkeley. She is the author of The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China! 1919-1937 (1990) and Provincial Passages: Culture! Space! and the Origins of Chinese Communism (California! 1996). Klappentext A splendid essay collection focusing on ordinary people in the chaotic post-emperor! pre-Communist period of China's history. Zusammenfassung This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of 20th-century Chinese identity. The contributors argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of 20th-century Chinese history. Inhaltsverzeichnis LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: Interpreting Chinese Modernity, 1900-1950 Wen-hsin Yeh PART ONE • THE CITY AND THE MODERN 1. The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai:Some Preliminary Explorations Leo Ou-fon Lee 2. Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900-1950 Sherman Cochran 3· "A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place": The City in the Making of Modern China David Strand 4· Engineering China: Birth of the Developmental State, 1928~1937 William C. Kirby 5· Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China Richard Madsen 6. The Grounding of Cosmopolitans:Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong Helen R Siu PART TWO ·THE NATION AND THE SELF 7· Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity Wang Hui 8. Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature David Der-wei Wang 9. Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai Frederic Wakeman Jr. 10. Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China Prasenjit Duara 11. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance Paul G. Pickowicz GLOSSARY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX ...
