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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


  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

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