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The New Asian City : Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form /
Under Jini Kim Watson's scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei
- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate
- Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation
- Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature
- Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities.