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Railway and Chinese Modernity: The Experience of Time and Space, the Cultural Imagination from the Late Qing to Republican China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Railway and Chinese Modernity: The Experience of Time and Space, the Cultural Imagination from the Late Qing to Republican China./
Author:	Li, Siyi.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	352 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=11012151
ISBN:	9780438658530

Railway and Chinese Modernity: The Experience of Time and Space, the Cultural Imagination from the Late Qing to Republican China.
Li, Siyi.

Railway and Chinese Modernity: The Experience of Time and Space, the Cultural Imagination from the Late Qing to Republican China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 352 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation is a cross-cultural and historical study of trains and railways from the late Qing to the Republican China (1840-1937). The narrative begins with the last decades of the Qing dynasty, when trains and railways were firstly introduced to China. It ends in 1937 before the breakout of Second Sino-Japanese War, when the process of modernization peaked in the Republican period. During this time, railways had undergone a tremendous change from a foreign technology into a part of people's everyday life and the mainstream political ideology, which was simultaneously associated with the construction of Chinese modernity. In the study of Chinese modernity, a dilemma arises: there is a divide between Western theories of modernity and historical situation of modernity in China. It either turns the research into a historical study/data analysis of modern China or into an experiment in which China is used to test Western theories of modernity. To avoid such a predicament, this research adopts an approach to track experience, which starts from things and objects instead of given theoretical frameworks. It looks at trains and railways and reconnects them to the cultural theories of time and space in the historical context of early modern China by establishing a new research paradigm of modernity. Through examining various materials and representations such as neologisms, newspaper reports, images, public and private records, and literary works during that period, the dissertation investigates various forms of modernity operating within trains and railways: the changing concepts of time and space, the bodily perception of mechanical acceleration, the new visual sense of speed, the political debates on the development of railways, and the modern Chinese literary experience of trains and railways. It argues that railways provide a new perspective for reflecting upon Chinese modernity and play a significant role in the making of the Chinese nation-state as well as the modern subjects.

ISBN: 9780438658530Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.
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Chinese modernity

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