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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kuroishi, Izumi, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014
Colección:Design and the built environment series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
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
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9781317161431