Everyday Modernity in China

Acknowledgments vii Introduction BY JOSHUA GOLDSTEIN 3(19) 1 Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China 22(30) HANCHAO LU 2 The Violence of the Everyday in Early Twentieth-Century China 52(28) REBECCA KARL 3 Discursive Community and the Genealogy of Scientific Categories 80(41) WANG HUI 4 The Modernity of Savings, 1900-1937 121(35) BRETT SHEEHAN 5 Reimagining China: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese, and a Transnational Modernity 156(39) JAMES A. COOK 6 Shanghai's China Traveler 195(32) MADELEINE YUE DONG 7 Self-Development of Migrant Women and the Production of Suzhi (Quality) as Surplus Value 227(33) YAN HAIRONG 8 The Remains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing 260(43) JOSHUA GOLDSTEIN 9 From Provision to Exchange: Legalizing the Market in China's Urban Water Supply 303(30) ALANA BOLAND Contributors 333(2) Index 335