Creating Chinese Modernity: Knowledge and Everyday Life, 1900-1940 (Hardcover)

Contents: Peter Zarrow: Introduction: New Discourses and Everyday Life in Modern China ? Young-Tsu Wong: Zhang Binglin’s Critique of Western Modernity: A Chinese View of Cultural Pluralism ? Peter Zarrow: Constitutionalism and the Imagination of the State: Official Views of Political Reform in the Late Qing ? Jon Kowallis: Lu Xun and Terrorism: A Reading of Revenge and Violence in Mara and Beyond ? Chi Kong Lai: Merchant Discourse on Self-interest in Modern China ? WeipinTsai: Having It All: Patriotism and Gracious Living in Shenbao’s Tobacco Advertisements, 1919 to 1937 ? Ning Jennifer Chang: Purely Sport or A Gambling Disgrace? Greyhound Racing and the Formation of Modern Shanghai ? Jinlin Hwang: Authority over the Body and the Modern Formation of the Body ? Ling-Ling Lien: Leisure, Patriotism, and Identity: The Chinese Career Women’s Club in Wartime Shanghai.