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

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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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Date
10 April 2006
Pages
251
ISBN
9780820479453

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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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Date
10 April 2006
Pages
251
ISBN
9780820479453