Things modern : material culture and everyday life in China

1. Introduction --
Material culture in modern China --
The fictions of 'authenticity', 'hybridity' and 'acculturation' --
The limits of 'emulation', 'consumption' and 'representation' --
Things and people --
Worship of the tangible --
The sources --
pt. I. Dissemination : networks and materials --
2. The domestication of foreign goods --
Exotic commodities in late imperial China --
Export commodities in late imperial China --
Copy culture and the movement for national goods --
3. The dissemination of new objects --
Retailing the modern --
Recycling the modern --
Exhibiting the modern --
The graphic revolution --
4. From water to wheel --
Motors in waterland --
Highway to heaven --
Rickshaw China --
On your bicycle --
Cars to die for --
The ubiquitous omnibus --
Riots at the station --
Flying chariots --
5. Changing cityscapes --
Cities --
Factories --
Schools --
Offices --
6. Electricity, telephone and water --
A nation electrified --
Water from the dragon's mouth --
Electric words, wonder of all wonders --
pt. II. Appropriation : people and objects --
7. Dwelling --
The permeable house survives --
The solid house spreads --
A glass world --
Locking up --
Changing interiors --
Kerosene, torchbearer of modernity --
The hidden powers of domestic objects --
8. Clothing and grooming --
Cotton, the fabric of everyday life --
From bound feet to leather shoes --
A whiff of modernity --
Trinkets for the poor, watches for the rich --
9. Eating and drinking --
Eating modernity --
Eating out --
Drinking cultures --
10. Seeing and listening --
The camera and the second I --
Magic lanterns and moving pictures --
Singing machines : the gramophone and the radio.