Essays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures. Topics range from the installation of gas streetlights in Sha

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,

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer

This work chronicles the history of China for over four hundred years through the spring of 1989.

This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the context of globalization from the late nineteenth century to the presen