Becoming Chinese |
Contents |
ILLUSTRATIONS |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
Introduction |
1. The City and the Modern |
1. The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai |
2. Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900–1950 |
3. "A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place" |
4. Engineering China |
5. Hierarchical Modernization |
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 |
• | LINGERING QUESTIONS |
• | NOTES |
2. The Nation and the Self |
7. Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity |
8. Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature |
9. Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai |
10. Of Authenticity and Woman |
11. Victory as Defeat |
CONTRIBUTORS |
Index |