{"product_id":"cities-surround-the-countryside-9780822347286","title":"Cities Surround The Countryside","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the cultural significance of the explosive growth of Chinas cities during the past three decades through interpretations of Chinese fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his book is a strong intervention in our understanding of the key contributors to the urban art scene, and to formations of critique in China’s cities.” - Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, \u003ci\u003eThe China Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an important study of a global issue which applies particularly to China in this period of unprecedented development: how to manage and ‘survive’ in the cities as they expand and modernise.” - Michael Sheringham, \u003ci\u003eAsian Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] timely and valuable study. . . . [It] will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of contemporary Chinese urban culture.” - Andrew Jones, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Visser’s study develops a new perspective on critical inquiry and urban culture in the postsocialist period by situating them within the tension between place and space in a rapidly changing urban environment.” - Alexander F. Day, H-Urban, \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[I]lluminating and rich in material. . . . Visser’s account of changing urban planning, especially the aesthetics of planning, is fascinating. . . . The book\u003cbr\u003emakes an important contribution to the contemporary cultural studies in China.” - Fulong Wu, \u003ci\u003eAsia Pacific Viewpoint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCities Surround the Countryside\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly exceptional book. Robin Visser has identified crucial issues that are nothing short of constitutive of urbanization and its reflections in the intellectual and cultural life of contemporary China. In addition, she deals with an impressive amount of material from various disciplines and media, much of which is little-known in English-language scholarship.”—\u003cb\u003eMaghiel van Crevel\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eChinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCities Surround the Countryside\u003c\/i\u003e is about everything important in contemporary China. In sensitive critical readings of everything from buildings and squares to artworks and short stories, from the literature of urbanism to the media of advertising, Robin Visser traces the emergence of a new urban self-consciousness. With its thorough scholarship and deft approach to text analysis, the book goes beyond the humanities to be a major contribution to Asian studies and urban studies, anthropology and history.”—\u003cb\u003eJudith Farquhar\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAppetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] timely and valuable study. . . . [It] will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars of contemporary Chinese urban culture.” -- Andrew Jones * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“[I]lluminating and rich in material. . . . Visser’s account of changing urban planning, especially the aesthetics of planning, is fascinating. . . . The book makes an important contribution to the contemporary cultural studies in China.” -- Fulong Wu * Asia Pacific Viewpoint *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his book is a strong intervention in our understanding of the key contributors to the urban art scene, and to formations of critique in China’s cities.” -- Stephanie Hemelryk Donald * The China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“This is an important study of a global issue which applies particularly to China in this period of unprecedented development: how to manage and ‘survive’ in the cities as they expand and modernise.” -- Michael Sheringham * Asian Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e“Visser’s study develops a new perspective on critical inquiry and urban culture in the postsocialist period by situating them within the tension between place and space in a rapidly changing urban environment.” -- Alexander F. Day H-Urban * H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“For a brilliant discussion of artistic insubordination in reaction to urban modernity in literature, performance and art, I keenly recommend Robin Visser’s \u003ci\u003eCities Surround the Countryside\u003c\/i\u003e.” -- Michael Sorkin * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Cities Surround the Countryside 1\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Conceiving the Postsocialist City \u003cbr\u003e 1. Designing the Postsocialist City: Urban Planning and Its Discontents 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Theorizing the Postsocialist City: Cultural Politics of Urban Aesthetics 85\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. The City as Subject \u003cbr\u003e 3. Performing the Postsocialist City: Beijing Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 131\u003cbr\u003e 4. Consuming the Postsocialist City: Shanghai Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 175\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. The Subject in the City \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Melancholic Urban Subject: \u003ci\u003eBlack Snow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrivate Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBreathing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCandy\u003c\/i\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e 6. Postsocialist Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life 255\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Sustainable Chinese Aesthetics 287\u003cbr\u003e Notes 295\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 331\u003cbr\u003e Index 353","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406060265815,"sku":"9780822347286","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822347286.jpg?v=1730494394","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cities-surround-the-countryside-9780822347286","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}