Everyday modernity in China / edited by Madeleine Yue Dong, Joshua L. Goldstein. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006. - 344 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - Studies in modernity and national identity .

"A China program book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Out of the ordinary : implications of material culture and daily life in China / Hanchao Lu -- The violence of the everyday in early twentieth-century China / Rebecca Karl -- Discursive community and the genealogy of scientific categories / Wang Hui -- The modernity of savings, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan -- Reimagining China : Xiamen, overseas Chinese, and a transnational modernity / James A. Cook -- Shanghai's China traveler / Madeleine Yue Dong -- Self-development of migrant women and the production of suzhi (quality) as surplus value / Yan Hairong -- The remains of the everyday : one hundred years of recycling in Beijing / Joshua Goldstein -- From provision to exchange : legalizing the market in China's urban water supply / Alana Boland.

0295986026 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780295986029

2006008879

GBA640171 bnb

013447413 Uk


National characteristics, Chinese.
Chinois.


China--Social conditions--2000-
Chine--Conditions sociales--2000-

HN733.5 / .E93e 2006

306.0951/0904