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Contents
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | vii | |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | ix | |
| Introduction: Interpreting Chinese Modernity, 1900–1950 Wen-hsin Yeh | 1 | |
| PART ONE • THE CITY AND THE MODERN | ||
| 1. | The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai: Some Preliminary Explorations Leo Ou-fan Lee | 31 |
| 2. | Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900–1950 Sherman Cochran | 62 |
| 3. | "A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place": The City in the Making of Modern China David Strand | 98 |
| 4. | Engineering China: Birth of the Developmental State, 1928–1937 William C. Kirby | 137 |
| 5. | Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China Richard Madsen | 161 |
| 6. | The Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong Helen F. Siu | 191 |
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| PART TWO • THE NATION AND THE SELF | ||
| 7. | Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity Wang Hui | 231 |
| 8. | Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature David Der-wei Wang | 260 |
| 9. | Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai Frederic Wakeman Jr. | 298 |
| 10. | Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China Prasenjit Duara | 342 |
| 11. | Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance Paul G. Pickowicz | 365 |
| CONTRIBUTORS | 409 | |
| INDEX | 413 |