Essays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures.

Acknowledgments
Introduction / Joshua Goldstein
1. Out of the Ordinary: Implications of Material Culture and Daily Life in China / Hanchao Lu
2. The Violence of the Everyday in Early Twentieth-Century China / Rebecca Karl
3. Discursive Community and the Genealogy of Scientific Categories / Wang Hui
4. The Modernity of Savings, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan
5. Reimagining China: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese, and a Transnational Modernity / James A. Cook
6. Shanghai's China Traveler / Madeleine Yue Dong
7. Self-Development of Migrant Women and the Production of Suzhi (Quality) as Surplus Value / Yan Hairong
8. The Remains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing / Joshua Goldstein
9. From Provision to Exchange: Legalizing the Market in China's Urban Water Supply / Alana Boland
Contributors
Index

Edited by Madeleine Yue Dong and Joshua Lewis Goldstein