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Constructing the colonized land : entwined perspectives of East Asia around WWII /
Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont :
Ashgate,
2014
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| Colección: | Design and the built environment series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period. Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; the role played by various media; and the influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods. The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined architectural, urban and social history of East Asia, which offers insights into the cultural systems and the historical and spatial meanings of these colonized cities. It concludes that the difficulties in the historical study of East Asia's colonial cities do not so much indicate cultural difference as the potentiality for multiple readings of the past toward the future. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409428190 1409428192 9781472404367 147240436X 9781306550024 1306550025 9781409428183 1409428184 1317161432 9781317161431 |