| Becoming Chinese |
| Contents |
 | ILLUSTRATIONS |
| • | FIGURES |
| • | MAP |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| Introduction |
| • | THE CITY AND THE MODERN |
| • | THE NATION AND THE SELF |
| • | NOTES |
| 1. The City and the Modern |
| 1. 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 |
| 2. 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 |
| 3. "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 |
| 4. 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 |
| 5. 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 |
| 6. 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 |
| GUANGDONG MERCHANTS |
| • | The Development of the Sands |
| • | The Language of Lineage and Ethnic Hierarchy |
| • | Coastal Trade |
| • | NINETEENTH-CENTURY HUICHENG, XINHUI |
| WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE REPUBLICAN ERA |
| • | The Demise of Town-Based Ancestral Estates |
| • | The Degentrification of Merchants in Huicheng |
| • | LINGERING QUESTIONS |
| • | NOTES |
| 2. The Nation and the Self |
| 7. Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity |
| • | I. THE PROVISIONAL CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUALITY |
| II. 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 |
| 8. 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 |
| 9. 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 |
| 10. Of Authenticity and Woman |
| • | THE SPACE OF AUTHENTICITY IN MODERNITY |
| • | THE MORALITY SOCIETY AND MANZHOUGUO |
| • | WOMEN AS ENUNCIATING SUBJECTS |
| • | CONCLUSIONS |
| • | NOTES |
| 11. 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 |
| Index |
