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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Chinese Modernity"”.
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Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
… of what it means to be part of China and to be Chinese? Search for the “self” and guominxing (national character) is key to understanding one’s roots, purpose, and allegiance to a sovereign state. But in an increasingly transient world, monolithic identification appears difficult. Without …
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While the State Claims the Intimate: Population Control Policy and the Makings of Chinese Modernity
… aspects of existence for hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens. Accounting for the notorious one-child policy and its subsequent metamorphoses calls for a localized, ethnographic genealogy of China’s effort at modernization via bioscience in rural areas since the 1970s. Based on 16 months of …
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
… examines the development and the regulation of Chinese ‘obscene’ prints in Republican Shanghai and colonial Singapore, two important Chinese publishing hubs in the early twentieth century. Using archives in London, Singapore and Shanghai, it first analyses the intellectual debates over the …
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The ecological turn: positioning the natural world in post-Mao fiction and film
… literary traditions) with discourses of post-Mao Chinese modernity. Topographical and spatial transformations within Mainland China, accompanying an ideological shift from Maoism to a mode of global neo-liberal capitalism, have challenged individual writers and filmmakers in their narration of …
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‘The good parent’: education, modernity, and ethnicity in Western China
… zhonghua minzu traditional familial values. The Chinese term suzhi (Ch. 素质), although often translated as ‘human quality’, has a fuzzy and complicated meaning, involving connotations of civility, competence, and modernity. Thus, drawing on a cluster of international studies on the governance of …
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Beyond Belief: Zhou Zuoren's Rationalist Writings and the Chinese Enlightenment
… current scholarly reflection on the problems of Chinese modernity, especially its ""initial phase,"" the Chinese Enlightenment (1910s-1920s). It examines the thought of the highly controversial thinker and writer Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), whose work had been profoundly influential during the …
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Constructing Tiananmen Square as a realm of memory: national salvation, revolutionary tradition, and political modernity in twentieth-century China.
… Peace) Square is to study the history of Chinese political modernity from the late nineteenth century to the present. While exploring the on-going process through which Tiananmen Square has been constructed as the symbolic center of twentieth-century China, this dissertation offers …
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Norms and Reasons: Modernity and subjecthood inside (and outside) a Chinese school
… aims. First, to elucidate (and defend) Weberian modernity as drastic transformations in peoples’ conceptions of normativity, which radically breaks with the past (Chapter 1), thereby illuminating how contemporary moral educational focuses in China function as a “pre-modernist” response to the …
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Spectacle as Myth: Guanxi, the relational and the urban quotidian in contemporary Chinese art (2005-2008)
… thesis is an interrogation of the spectacle of Chinese contemporary art and the concept of a Chinese modernity, in terms of the legacy from the Communist era, China's social fabric and its urban quotidian. It contributes to knowledge in a way of understanding Chinese contemporary art that is …
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The Dynamics of Sisterhood In the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890S-1930S
… female subjects together in the making of Chinese modernity. Little account has been taken of the group identification of “modern sisters” and the re-invention of “sisterhood” in the modern Chinese discourse, despite the fact that “sister” (<italic>zimei/jiemei</italic> 姊妹/姐妹) was perhaps …
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Longstanding natives and dispersed minorities: Sino-Muslims, public culture, and identification in Late Imperial China, 1600-1912
… in a public culture they shared with other Chinese people from the 1600s to the 1900s. During the late imperial period, increasing mobility, deepening commercialization, and intensified urbanization in China proper had fostered the growth of a “public culture” which consisted of various …
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Seminal modernity: masturbation and the politics of abstinence in early Republican China (1912-1937)
This Thesis was approved for publication on 2022-07-19 at 09:56.