TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter Zarrow
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1098-4194
TI  - Creating Chinese Modernity
T2  - Knowledge and Everyday Life, 1900-1940
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102113
N2  - Over the first half of the twentieth century, the lives of millions of urban Chinese were transformed by new ideas, new objects, new jobs, new leisure pursuits, new forms of transportation, new architecture: in a word, new «life-styles» and habits of mind. What did these changes mean to ordinary people? The essays in this book examine how prevailing discourses – on nationalism, feminism, democracy, individualism, socialism, and the like – emerged and were absorbed into the lived experiences and material culture of ordinary Chinese. Only from intimate personal experiences with forces ranging from war, revolution, and state-building to advertising blitzes and boycotts was Chinese modernity forged, forged out of «forces» larger than individuals but simultaneously observed, interpreted, adapted, and absorbed by those individuals.
KW  - China, Entwicklung, Geschichte 1900-1940, Kongress, Taipeh (2002), Modernity, Party, Modern China, Gesellschaft, Republic of China, Qing
LA  - English
ER  -