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Spectacle and the city : Chinese urbanities in art and popular culture /

China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kloet, Jeroen de (Editor ), Scheen, Lena (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Colección:Cities and cultures ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Speed and spectacle in Chinese cities / Ackbar Abbas
  • Planned demi-monde and its aestheticisation in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat
  • Coming of age in RMB City / Robin Visser
  • The architecture of Utopia : from Rem Koolhaas' scale models to RMB City / Yomi Braester
  • Imagining a disappearing and reappearing Chinese city / Jeroen de Kloet
  • Tuning urban China / Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau
  • The city's (dis)appearance in propaganda / Stefan Landsberger
  • Claiming the past, presenting the present, selling the future : imagining a new Beijing, great Olympics / Gladys Pak Lei Chong
  • Shanghai in film and literature : the danger of nostalgia / Gregory Bracken
  • Nostalgia, place, and making peace with modernity in East Asia / Margaret Hillenbrand
  • Femme fatales and male narcissists : Shanghai spectacle narrated, packaged and sold / Lena Scheen
  • City regeneration and its opposition / Ou Ning
  • Law, embodiment, and the case of 'harbourcide' / John Nguyet Erni.