Everyday Modernity in China

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Madeleine Yue Dong and Joshua Lewis Goldstein Klappentext Essays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures. Zusammenfassung Examines the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the details of Chinese life. This book explores the theme of 'revaluation' - that is! the way China's move into global capitalism is commoditizing goods and services! from domestic labour to recycling and water resources! in a consumer-oriented society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction / Joshua Goldstein 1. Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China / Hanchao Lu 2. The Violence of the Everyday in Early Twentieth-Century China / Rebecca Karl 3. Discursive Community and the Genealogy of Scientific Categories / Wang Hui 4. The Modernity of Savings, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan 5. Reimagining China: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese, and a Transnational Modernity / James A. Cook 6. Shanghai's China Traveler / Madeleine Yue Dong 7. Self-Development of Migrant Women and the Production of Suzhi (Quality) as Surplus Value / Yan Hairong 8. The Remains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing / Joshua Goldstein 9. From Provision to Exchange: Legalizing the Market in China's Urban Water Supply / Alana Boland Contributors Index

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• Authors: Madeleine Yue Goldstein Dong
• Assisted by: Madeleine Yue Dong (Editor), Joshua L. Goldstein (Editor), Joshua Lewis Goldstein (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2006
• EAN: 9780295986029
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98602-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity; Studies in Modernity and Natio; Studies in Modernity and National Identity; Studies in Modernity and Natio; Everyday Modernity in China
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)