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Author Watson, Jini Kim, author

Title The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate -- Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation -- Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature -- Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities
Summary Under Jini Kim Watson's scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their colonized past and globalized present. Examining how newly constructed spaces-including expressways, high-rises, factory zones, department stores, and govern
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject East Asian fiction -- History and criticism
Cities and towns in literature.
Urbanization in literature.
Space in literature.
Urbanization -- East Asia -- History
Cities and towns -- East Asia -- Growth -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Cities and towns -- Growth
Cities and towns in literature
East Asian fiction
Space in literature
Urbanization
Urbanization in literature
East Asia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011003818
ISBN 9780816678792
0816678790
1452947554
9781452947556