Creating Chinese Modernity : Knowledge And Everyday Life, 1900-1940

Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: New Discourses and Everyday Life in Modern China 1(22) PETER ZARROW 2 Zhang Binglin's Critique of Western Modernity: A Chinese View of Cultural Pluralism 23(28) YOUNG-TSU WONG 3 Constitutionalism and the Imagination of the State: Official Views of Political Reform in the Late Qing 51(32) PETER ZARROW 4 Lu Xun and Terrorism: A Reading of Revenge and Violence in Mara and Beyond 83(16) JON KOWALLIS 5 Merchant Discourse on Self-interest in Modern China 99(18) CHI KONG LAI 6 Having It All: Patriotism and Gracious Living in Shenbao's Tobacco Advertisements, 1919 to 1937 117(30) WEIPIN TSAI 7 Pure Sport or A Gambling Disgrace? Greyhound Racing and the Formation of Modern Shanghai 147(36) NING JENNIFER CHANG 8 Authority over the Body and the Modern Formation of the Body 183(30) JINLIN HWANG 9 Leisure, Patriotism, and Identity: The Chinese Career Women's Club in Wartime Shanghai 213(28) LING-LING LIEN List of Contributors 241(2) Index 243