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Atlas : the archaeology of an imaginary city /
Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), this book is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. It reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Weatherhead books on Asia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: An Archaeology for the Future
- Introduction
- Part One: Theory. 1. Counterplace
- 2. Commonplace
- 3. Misplace
- 4. Displace
- 5. Antiplace
- 6. Nonplace
- 7. Extraterritoriality
- 8. Boundary
- 9. Utopia
- 10. Supertopia
- 11. Subtopia
- 12. Transtopia
- 13. Multitopia
- 14. Unitopia
- 15. Omnitopia
- Part Two: The City. 16. Mirage: City in the Sea
- 17. Mirage: Towers in the Air
- 18. Pottinger's inverted vision
- 19. Gordon's Jail
- 20. "Plan of the City of Victoria," 1889
- 21. The Four Wan and Nine Yeuk
- 22. The Centaur of the East
- 23. Scandal Point and the Military Cantonment
- 24. Mr. Smith's One-Day Trip
- 25. The View from Government House
- 26. The Toad of Belcher's Dream
- 27. The Return of Kwan Tai Loo
- 28. The Curse of Tai Ping Shan
- 29. War Game
- Part Three: Streets. 30. Spring Garden Lane
- 31. Ice House Street
- 32. Sugar Street
- 33. Tsat Tsz Mui Road
- 34. Canal Road East and Canal Road West
- 35. Aldrich Street
- 36. Possession Street
- 37. Sycamore Street
- 38. Tung Choi Street and Sai Yeung Choi Street
- 39. Sai Yee Street
- 40. Public Square Street
- 41. Cedar Street
- Part Four: Signs. 42. The Decline of the Legend
- 43. The Eye of the Typhoon
- 44. Chek Lap Kok Airport
- 45. The Metonymic Spectrum
- 46. The Elevation of Imagination
- 47. Geological Discrimination
- 48. North-Oriented Declination
- 49. The Travel of Numbers
- 50. The Tomb of Signs
- 51. The Orbit of Time
- Acknowledgments
- Author & Translators.