Creating Chinese modernity : knowledge and everyday life, 1900-1940 / edited by Peter Zarrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zarrow, Peter Gue.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in modern Chinese history ; v. 4.

Studies in modern Chinese history ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Civilization--20th century.

China.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

vi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction: new discourses and everyday life in modern China / Peter Zarrow

Zhang Binglin's critique of western modernity: a Chinese view of cultural pluralism / Young-tsu Wong

Constitutionalism and the imagination of the state: official views of political reform in the late Qing / Peter Zarrow

Lu Xun and terrorism: a reading of revenge and violence in Mara and beyond / Jon Kowallis

Merchant discourse on self-interest in modern China / Chi Kong Lai

Having it all: patriotism and gracious living in Shenbao's tobacco advertisements, 1919 to 1937 / Weipin Tsai

Purely sport or a gambling disgrace? greyhound racing and the formation of modern Shanghai / Ning Jennifer Chang

Authority over the body and the modern formation of the body / Jinlin Hwang

Leisure, patriotism, and identity: the Chinese career women's club in wartime Shanghai / Ling-ling Lien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0820479454

OCLC:

61151464