Harbin to Hanoi : the colonial built environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 /
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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2012.
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Collection: | Global connections.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.