TEN. Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS IX
3. ILLUSTRATIONS XI
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XIII
5. Introduction: Interpreting Chinese Modernity, 1900-1950 1
6. PART ONE. The City and the Modern
7. ONE. The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai: Some Preliminary Explorations 31
8. TWO. Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900—1950 62
9. THREE. "A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place": The City in the Making of Modern China 98
10. FOUR. Engineering China: Birth of the Developmental State, 1928-1937 137
11. FIVE. Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China 161
12. SIX. The Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong 191
13. PART TWO. The Nation and the Self
14. SEVEN. Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity 231
15. EIGHT. Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature 260
16. NINE. Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai 298
17. TEN. Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China 342
18. ELEVEN. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance 365
19. GLOSSARY 399
20. CONTRIBUTORS 409
21. INDEX 413