3 Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Political Citizenship in Modern China 1
5. I Imperial and Republican China I Imperial and Republican China
6. 1 Citizens or Mothers of Citizens? Gender and the Meaning of Modern Chinese Citizenship 21
7. 2 Citizens in the Audience and at the Podium 44
8. 3 Democratic Calisthenics: The Culture of Urban Associations in the New Republic 70
9. 4 Questioning the Modernity of the Model Settlement: Citizenship and Exclusion in Old Shanghai 110
10. 5 From Paris to the Paris of the East— and Back: Workers as Citizens in Modern Shanghai 133
11. II The People’s Republic of China
12. 6 The Reassertion of Political Citizenship in the Post-Mao Era: The Democracy Wall Movement 157
13. 7 Personality, Biography, and History: How Hu Jiwei Strayed from the Party Path on the Road to Good Citizenship 187
14. 8 Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship 212
15. 9 Ethnic Economy of Citizenship in China: Four Approaches to Identity Formation 232
16. 10 Do Good Businessmen Make Good Citizens? An Emerging Collective Identity Among China’s Private Entrepreneurs 255
17. 11 Citizenship, Ideology, and the PRC Constitution 288
18. 12 Law and the Gendered Citizen 308
19. 13 Constructing Citizenship: The NPC as Catalyst for Political Participation 330
20. III Taiwan
21. 14 Nationalism versus Citizenship in the Republic of China on Taiwan 351
22. Notes 375
23. Contributors 457