Everyday modernity in China
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Bibliographic Information
Everyday modernity in China
(Studies in modernity and national identity)(A China program book)
University of Washington Press, c2006
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "original modernity" that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of case studies from modern China to make their point. By focusing on people's ordinary routines of working, eating, going to school, and traveling, the authors examine the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the minute details of Chinese life.
Essays explore people's basic search for food, water, and lighting during the late-Qing -- early republican era; contradictory attitudes toward women and the violence of foot-binding; the role of Chinese scientists in promoting a shift to modern, nationalistic discourses; the growing popularity of savings banks among urban Chinese in the early twentieth century; the transnational and national identities of returned overseas Chinese in Xiamen, Fujian Province; and middle-class "Shanghai travelers" who imagined themselves as cosmopolitan consumers.
Looking at the post-Mao reform era of the late twentieth century, contributors explore the theme of "revaluation" - that is, the way China's move into global capitalism is commoditizing goods and services that previously were not for sale, from domestic labor to recycling and water resources, in an increasingly consumer-oriented society.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Joshua Goldstein
1. Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China / Hanchao Lu
2. The Violence of the Everyday in Early Twentieth-Century China / Rebecca Karl
3. Discursive Community and the Genealogy of Scientific Categories / Wang Hui
4. The Modernity of Savings, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan
5. Reimagining China: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese, and a Transnational Modernity / James A. Cook
6. Shanghai's China Traveler / Madeleine Yue Dong
7. Self-Development of Migrant Women and the Production of Suzhi (Quality) as Surplus Value / Yan Hairong
8. The Remains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing / Joshua Goldstein
9. From Provision to Exchange: Legalizing the Market in China's Urban Water Supply / Alana Boland
Contributors
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