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Author:   Madeleine Yue Dong ,  Joshua Lewis Goldstein
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780295986029

ISBN 10:   0295986026
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   15 August 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction / Joshua Goldstein 1. Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China / Hanchao Lu 2. The Violence of the Everyday in Early Twentieth-Century China / Rebecca Karl 3. Discursive Community and the Genealogy of Scientific Categories / Wang Hui 4. The Modernity of Savings, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan 5. Reimagining China: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese, and a Transnational Modernity / James A. Cook 6. Shanghai's China Traveler / Madeleine Yue Dong 7. Self-Development of Migrant Women and the Production of Suzhi (Quality) as Surplus Value / Yan Hairong 8. The Remains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing / Joshua Goldstein 9. From Provision to Exchange: Legalizing the Market in China's Urban Water Supply / Alana Boland Contributors Index

Reviews

[This] approach is stimulating, the new research welcome, and the details memorable: between the shop-houses of Xiamen, the hot-dry noodles of Wuhan and the tale of Xiaohong's dismissal, readers will find much to enjoy. The China Journal

[This] approach is stimulating, the new research welcome, and the details memorable: between the shop-houses of Xiamen, the hot-dry noodles of Wuhan and the tale of Xiaohong's dismissal, readers will find much to enjoy. * The China Journal *

""[This] approach is stimulating, the new research welcome, and the details memorable: between the shop-houses of Xiamen, the hot-dry noodles of Wuhan and the tale of Xiaohong's dismissal, readers will find much to enjoy."" (The China Journal)

""[This] approach is stimulating, the new research welcome, and the details memorable: between the shop-houses of Xiamen, the hot-dry noodles of Wuhan and the tale of Xiaohong's dismissal, readers will find much to enjoy."" * The China Journal *

Author Information

Madeleine Yue Dong is associate professor of international studies at the University of Washington. Joshua Goldstein is assistant professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Southern California. Other contributors include Alana Boland, James Cook, Wang Hui, Rebecca Karl, Hanchao Lu, Brett Sheehan, and Hairong Yan.

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