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Book SynopsisExamines the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the details of Chinese life. This book explores the theme of 'revaluation' - that is, the way China's move into global capitalism is commoditizing goods and services, from domestic labour to recycling and water resources, in a consumer-oriented society.
Trade Review"[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 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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