Creating Chinese Modernity : Knowledge and Everyday Life, 1900-1940
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Modern Chinese History
ISBN-10
0820479454
ISBN-13
9780820479453
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 10th, 2006
Print length
251 Pages
Weight
566 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalAsian historySocial & cultural historySociologySocial theory
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Over the first half of the twentieth century, the lives of millions of urban Chinese were transformed by new ideas, new objects, new jobs, new leisure pursuits, new forms of transportation, new architecture: in a word, new «life-styles» and habits of mind. What did these changes mean to ordinary people? The essays in this book examine how prevailing discourses – on nationalism, feminism, democracy, individualism, socialism, and the like – emerged and were absorbed into the lived experiences and material culture of ordinary Chinese. Only from intimate personal experiences with forces ranging from war, revolution, and state-building to advertising blitzes and boycotts was Chinese modernity forged, forged out of «forces» larger than individuals but simultaneously observed, interpreted, adapted, and absorbed by those individuals.
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