Becoming Chinese - Passages to Modernity & Beyond

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Interpreting Chinese Modernity, 1900--1950 1(30) Wen-hsin Yeh PART ONE THE CITY AND THE MODERN The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai: Some Preliminary Explorations 31(31) Leo Ou-fan Lee Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900--1950 62(36) Sherman Cochran ``A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place'': The City in the Making of Modern China 98(39) David Strand Engineering China: Birth of the Developmental State, 1928--1937 137(24) William C. Kirby Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China 161(30) Richard Madsen The Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong 191(40) Helen F. Siu PART TWO THE NATION AND THE SELF Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity 231(29) Wang Hui Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature 260(38) David Der-wei Wang Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai 298(44) Frederic Wakeman Jr. Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China 342(23) Prasenjit Duara Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance 365(34) Paul G. Pickowicz Glossary 399(10) Contributors 409(4) Index 413