Becoming Chinese

  Contents
 collapse sectionILLUSTRATIONS
 FIGURES
 MAP
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 collapse sectionIntroduction
 THE CITY AND THE MODERN
 THE NATION AND THE SELF
 NOTES

 collapse section1. The City and the Modern
 collapse section1. The Cultural Construction  of Modernity in Urban Shanghai
 1.  The Business of Enlightenment: Journals and Textbooks
 The Business of Enlightenment: Repositories
 2.
 The "Good Companion"
 Advertising Modernity
 Calendar Posters
 3.
 NOTES
 collapse section2. Marketing Medicine and Advertising  Dreams in China, 1900–1950
 THE DREAM OF WESTERN SOLUTIONS  TO CHINESE PROBLEMS
 THE DREAM OF THE TRIUMPH  OF ECONOMIC NATIONALISM
 THE DREAM OF WOMEN'S BODIES
 MASS ADVERTISING
 MARKETING IN PEACE AND WAR
 POACHING AND POPULARIZING
 NOTES
 collapse section3. "A High Place Is No Better  Than a Low Place"
 AN URBAN FRAME OF REFERENCE: LANZHOU,  SHANGHAI, AND OTHER URBAN CENTERS
 CITIES AND SOCIAL CRITICISM:  THE IMPULSE FOR REFORM
 CITIES, THE STATE, AND CITY PEOPLE
 CONCLUSION
 NOTES
 collapse section4. Engineering China
 1. VISIONS OF MODERN CHINA
 2. PARIS OF THE EAST: NANJING  AND "RECONSTRUCTION"
 3. COOPERATION WITH THE TEKHINTERN
 4. A GOVERNMENT OF ENGINEERS?
 5. CONCLUSIONS
 NOTES
 collapse section5. Hierarchical Modernization
 BOUNDARY MAINTENANCE  IN COUNTRYSIDE AND CITY
 L'INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES INDUSTRIELLES  ET COMMERCIALES DE TIENTSIN
 GONG SHANG COLLEGE
 THE WAR YEARS
 THE AGONY OF GONG SHANG COLLEGE
 LEGACIES
 NOTES
 collapse section6. The Grounding of Cosmopolitans
 WHERE WERE THE MERCHANTS?
 MERCHANTS IN THE MAKING  OF THE LATE IMPERIAL STATE AND SOCIETY
 COMPARATIVE MATERIALS ON HUIZHOU MERCHANTS
 CRISES IN THE LATE QING: A BALANCE DISTURBED
 collapse sectionGUANGDONG MERCHANTS
 The Development of the Sands
 The Language of Lineage and Ethnic Hierarchy
 Coastal Trade
 NINETEENTH-CENTURY HUICHENG, XINHUI
 collapse sectionWINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE REPUBLICAN ERA
 The Demise of Town-Based Ancestral Estates
 The Degentrification of Merchants in Huicheng
 LINGERING QUESTIONS
 NOTES

 collapse section2. The Nation and the Self
 collapse section7. Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity
 I. THE PROVISIONAL CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUALITY
 collapse sectionII. THE MODERN NATION-STATE  AND THE CONCEPT OF THE INDIVIDUATED SELF
 1. Antistate and Antigovernmental Significance in the Concept of Individuality
 2. The Relationship between the Individual and the People
 3. Late Qing Statism and the Relationship between Individual and Nation
 4. The Omission of Societal Space  in the Binary Formulation of Individual and Nation
 5. A Critique of the Parliamentary System
 6. A Critique of Merchants as a Special Interest Group
 7. The Rejection of Urban Political Organizations
 8. The Rejection of Communities Based on Connections
 9. Conclusion
 NOTES
 collapse section8. Crime or Punishment?  On the Forensic Discourse  of Modern Chinese Literature
 1. JUSTICE UNDONE
 2. MISOGYNY AND MISANDRY,  FILICIDE AND PARRICIDE
 3. A LITERATURE OF BLOOD AND TEARS
 4. LIVING HELL REVISITED
 NOTES
 collapse section9. Hanjian (Traitor)!  Collaboration and Retribution  in Wartime Shanghai
 TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES
 GOING OVER
 TRAITORS AND TRANSGRESSION
 TREACHERY AND APPEASEMENT
 URBAN COLLABORATION
 BLUE SHIRTS
 WAR AND NATIONAL SALVATION
 CO-OPTATION
 PUPPETS
 FU XIAOAN'S PERFIDY
 POLARIZATION
 TARGETING HANJIAN
 THE SUN YAXING TERRORIST GROUP
 TERRORISM CONTINUES
 THE XI SHITAI ASSASSINATION
 COLLUSION
 CONCLUSION
 NOTES
 collapse section10. Of Authenticity and Woman
 THE SPACE OF AUTHENTICITY IN MODERNITY
 THE MORALITY SOCIETY AND MANZHOUGUO
 WOMEN AS ENUNCIATING SUBJECTS
 CONCLUSIONS
 NOTES
 collapse section11. Victory as Defeat
 THE POSTWAR FILM SCENE
 PREWAR CONNECTIONS, WARTIME PASSAGES,  AND POSTWAR NETWORKS
 FAR AWAY LOVE: A MEANINGFUL FABRICATION
 EIGHT THOUSAND MILES OF CLOUDS AND MOON:  THE ILLUSION OF REALITY
 A SPRING RIVER FLOWS EAST: COMMUNITIES  AND IDENTITIES IN FLUX
 FAMILY NARRATIVES AS NATIONAL ALLEGORIES
 DEFINING THE AUDIENCE AND ITS NEEDS
 ISSUES OF CLASS AND GENDER
 THE CULTURAL POLITICS  OF POSTWAR HOLOCAUST EPICS
 DEFEAT AS VICTORY AND VICTORY AS DEFEAT
 NOTES

  CONTRIBUTORS
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