| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 158 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Weatherhead books on Asia |
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Weatherhead books on Asia.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 It reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique.--From book jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
FICTION -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Hong Kong (China) -- Fiction
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| Subject |
China -- Hong Kong
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| Genre/Form |
novels.
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Novels
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Fiction
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Novels.
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Fiction.
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Romans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hansson, Anders, 1944- translator.
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McDougall, Bonnie S., 1941- translator.
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| LC no. |
2011035907 |
| ISBN |
9780231504225 |
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0231504225 |
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9780241217030 |
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0241217032 |
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