Harbin to Hanoi : the colonial built environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 /

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Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of ci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Zatsepine, Victor (Editor), Victoir, Laura A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2012.
Series:Global connections.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Architecture, Colonial > Asia.
Colonies > Asia > History.
Urbanization > Asia > History > 20th century.
Urbanization > Asia > History > 19th century.
Colonial cities > Asia.
Architecture coloniale > Asie.
Urbanisation > Asie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Urbanisation > Asie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Villes coloniales > Asie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Architecture, Colonial
Colonial cities
Colonies
Urbanization
Asia
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Russia, Railways, and Urban Development in Manchuria, 1896-1930
  • Beans to Banners
  • France, Brossard Mopin, and Manchukuo
  • International Concessions and the Modernization of Tianjin
  • Mapping Colonial Space
  • The Architecture of Risk
  • Fabricating Justice
  • Making Space for Higher Education in Colonial Hong Kong, 1887-1913
  • Colonial Hanoi
  • Hygienic Colonial Residences in Hanoi
  • Domesticating the Suburbs
  • Afterword.

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