The new Asian city [electronic resource] : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson.

By: Watson, Jini Kim, 1973-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011Description: 311 pISBN: 9780816678792 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.933585009732 LOC classification: PL493 | .W37 2011Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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