Becoming Chinese Passages to Modernity and Beyond 1st Edition by Wen Hsin Yeh 9780520924413 052092441X

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ISBN 10: 052092441X

ISBN 13: 9780520924413

Author: Wen Hsin Yeh

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. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness should serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China’s modern transformation up to the 1950s. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual’s quest for autonomy.

Table of contents:

PART ONE The City and the Modern

ONE The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai: Some Preliminary Explorations

TWO Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900-1950

THREE “A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place”: The City in the Making of Modern China

FOUR Engineering China: Birth of the Developmental State, 1928-1937

FIVE Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin’s Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China

SIX The Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong

PART TWO The Nation and the Self

SEVEN Zhang Taiyan’s Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity

EIGHT Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature

NINE Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai

TEN Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China

ELEVEN Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China’s War of Resistance

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