Examines the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the details of Chinese life. This book explores the theme of 'revaluation' - that is, the way China's move into global capitalism is commoditizing goods and services, from domestic labour to recycling and water resources, in a consumer-oriented society.
Examines the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the details of Chinese life. This book explores the theme of 'revaluation' - that is, the way China's move into global capitalism is commoditizing goods and services, from domestic labour to recycling and water resources, in a consumer-oriented society.
Madeleine Yue Dong is associate professor of international studies at the University of Washington. Joshua Goldstein is assistant professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Southern California. Other contributors include Alana Boland, James Cook, Wang Hui, Rebecca Karl, Hanchao Lu, Brett Sheehan, and Hairong Yan.
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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
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
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