Everyday Modernity in China

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments | vii Introduction by joshua goldstein | 3 1 Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China | 22 hanchao lu 2 The Violence of the Everyday in Early Twentieth-Century China | 52 rebecca karl 3 Discursive Community and the Genealogy of Scientific Categories | 80 wang hui 4 The Modernity of Savings, 1900–1937 | 121 brett sheehan 5 Reimagining China: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese, and a Transnational Modernity | 156 james a. cook 6 Shanghai’s China Traveler | 195 madeleine yue dong 7 Self-Development of Migrant Women and the Production of Suzhi (Quality) as Surplus Value | 227 yan hairong 8 The Remains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing | 260 joshua goldstein 9 From Provision to Exchange: Legalizing the Market in China’s Urban Water Supply | 303 alana boland Contributors | 333 Index | 335 ...