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Title Constructing the colonized land : entwined perspectives of East Asia around WWII / edited by Izumi Kuroishi, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Published Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations
Series Design and the built environment
Design and the built environment series.
Contents A study on Japanese colonial architecture in East Asia / Yasuhiko Nishizawa -- Recentering the city : municipal architecture in Shanghai, 1927-1934 / Cole Roskam -- Scholarship and political identity : Asianism in Tadashi Sekino's Survey of Chinese heritage before 1935 / Xu Subin -- Transplanting state Shinto : the reconfiguration of existing built and natural environments in colonized Taiwan / Akihito Aoi -- From political governance and spatial restructure to urban transformation and architectural achievements : discourse on architecture in the Japanese colonial period, 1895-1945 / Chao-Ching Fu -- Macau's urban transformation 1927-1949 : the significance of Sino-Portuguese foreign relations in the urban form / Paula Morais -- Colonial modernity and urban space : Seoul and the 1930s land readjustment project / Junichiro Ishida and Jooya Kim -- On Park Kil-Ryong's discovering, understanding, and designing of Korean architecture / Woo Don-Son -- Domesticating others' space : surveys and reforms of housing in Chosen and Japan by Wajiro Kon / Izumi Kuroishi
Summary Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period. Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; the role played by various media; and the influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods. The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined architectural, urban and social history of East Asia, which offers insights into the cultural systems and the historical and spatial meanings of these colonized cities. It concludes that the difficulties in the historical study of East Asia's colonial cities do not so much indicate cultural difference as the potentiality for multiple readings of the past toward the future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes English
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Subject Architecture, Japanese -- China -- History -- 20th century
Architecture, Japanese -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
Architecture -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century
Architecture -- Political aspects -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
Architecture and society -- China -- History -- 20th century
Architecture and society -- Korea -- History -- 20th century
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Architecture and society
Architecture, Japanese
Architecture -- Political aspects
China
Korea
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Kuroishi, Izumi, 1953- editor.
ISBN 9781409428190
1409428192
9781472404367
147240436X
9781306550024
1306550025
9781409428183
1409428184
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9781317161431