Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
Introduction: Interpreting Chinese Modernity, 1900-1950
Wen-hsin Yeh 
PART ONE • THE CITY AND THE MODERN
1. The Cultural Construction of Modernity in Urban Shanghai:Some Preliminary Explorations
Leo Ou-fon Lee 
2. Marketing Medicine and Advertising Dreams in China, 1900-1950
Sherman Cochran 
3· "A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place": The City in the Making of Modern China
David Strand 
4· Engineering China:
Birth of the Developmental State, 1928~1937
William C. Kirby 
5· Hierarchical Modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a Model for Catholic Community in North China
Richard Madsen 
6. The Grounding of Cosmopolitans:Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong
Helen R Siu 
PART TWO ·THE NATION AND THE SELF
7· Zhang Taiyan's Concept of the Individual and Modern Chinese Identity
Wang Hui 
8. Crime or Punishment? On the Forensic Discourse of Modern Chinese Literature
David Der-wei Wang 
9. Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and Retribution in Wartime Shanghai
Frederic Wakeman Jr. 
10. Of Authenticity and Woman: Personal Narratives of Middle-Class Women in Modern China
Prasenjit Duara 
11. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China's War of Resistance
Paul G. Pickowicz 
GLOSSARY 
CONTRIBUTORS 
INDEX 

About the Author

Wen-hsin Yeh is Professor of History and Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937 (1990) and Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism (California, 1996).

Reviews

"Wen-hsin Yeh has produced a remarkable volume with the help of a stellar supporting cast. The volume tackles many current topics in the field of Chinese history. All the scholars of twentieth-century China will want to add the work to their own bookshelves."--China Information