Everyday Modernity in China (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dong, Madeleine Yue; Goldstein, Joshua Lewis

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295801155
• Artikelnr.: 44784448

Autorenporträt

Edited by Madeleine Yue Dong and Joshua Lewis Goldstein

Inhaltsangabe

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
Index