| 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 |
| 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 |
| 9. Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai |
| 10. Of Authenticity and Woman |
| 11. Victory as Defeat |
| CONTRIBUTORS |
| Index |