| Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations |
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Cities and cultures ; 2 |
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Cities and cultures ; 2.
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| Contents |
Speed and spectacle in Chinese cities / Ackbar Abbas -- Planned demi-monde and its aestheticisation in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat -- Coming of age in RMB City / Robin Visser -- The architecture of Utopia : from Rem Koolhaas' scale models to RMB City / Yomi Braester -- Imagining a disappearing and reappearing Chinese city / Jeroen de Kloet -- Tuning urban China / Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau -- The city's (dis)appearance in propaganda / Stefan Landsberger -- Claiming the past, presenting the present, selling the future : imagining a new Beijing, great Olympics / Gladys Pak Lei Chong -- Shanghai in film and literature : the danger of nostalgia / Gregory Bracken -- Nostalgia, place, and making peace with modernity in East Asia / Margaret Hillenbrand -- Femme fatales and male narcissists : Shanghai spectacle narrated, packaged and sold / Lena Scheen -- City regeneration and its opposition / Ou Ning -- Law, embodiment, and the case of 'harbourcide' / John Nguyet Erni |
| Summary |
China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified cityscape? How to realign artistic expressions of the spectacle with everyday practices? The imaginations of the Chinese city in art and popular culture that this book explores are not taken as merely mirroring or reflecting "reality", on the contrary, they are part and parcel of the construction, destruction and deconstruction of that "reality". As such, these imaginations are enmeshed in the social, material and political realities that produce Chiense cityscapes. Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture brings together essays be an interdisciplinary team of experts on Chinese cities, including world-renowned scholars like Ackbar Abbas and Chua Beng Huat, as well as leading cultural critics like Ou Ning. Aiming to steer away from an exclusive focus on Mainland China, the adjective Chinese has a cultural meaning and includes places like Singapore and Hong Kong |
| Notes |
"This book is the outcome of a workshop hosted by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the International Institute of Asian Studies"--Page 9 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Asia -- 21st century
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Cities and towns in mass media.
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Arts and society -- China -- 21st century
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Popular culture -- China -- 21st century
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Urbanization -- China -- In popular culture
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Arts and society
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Cities and towns
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Cities and towns in mass media
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Manners and customs
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Popular culture
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Stadscultuur.
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Urbanisatie.
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Populaire cultuur.
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Culturele aspecten.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Asia
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China
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China.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kloet, Jeroen de, editor.
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Scheen, Lena, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789048517022 |
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9048517028 |
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