"Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "original modernity" that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of case studies from modern China to make their point. By focusing on people's ordinary routines of working, eating, going to school, and traveling, the authors examine the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the mi ..."
"—HENRI LEFEBvRE, Everyday Life in the Modern World In the prefatory remarks
to his famed 1903 pamphlet Nüjie zhong (A bell for the women's world), the
social critic Jin Yi commented, “There is not a place in today's world where male
domination of women has not triumphed; if they are not treated as playthings,
then they are used as colonized territory [kou bu yiwei wanhao, zi yiwei zhimindi
ye].”1 This remark eaectively introduced J ..."