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Book SynopsisCultural productions reveal a darker side to development in emblematic Asian Tiger cities
Trade Review"The New Asian City is capacious, probing, and exciting as it cuts across Asian global fields: Jini Kim Watson makes the Pacific Rim urban space boom, transform, and resonate with life force, social knowledge, and urban creativity." —Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From ‘South Pacific’ to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
"This is an unusually interesting book. It is remarkable not because the New Asian City is analyzed in terms of the latest urban theory available, but because it demonstrates how much farther urban theory has to go to catch up with the Asian city." —Ackbar Abbas, author of Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Table of ContentsContents
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Introduction: The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei
Part I. Colonial Cities
1. Imagining the Colonial City
2. Orphans of Asia: Modernity and Colonial Literature
Export Production and the Blank Slate
Part II. Postwar Urbanism
3. Narratives of Human Growth versus Urban Renewal
4. The Disappearing Woman, Interiority, and Private Space
Roads, Railways, and Bridges: Arteries of the Nation
Part III. Industrializing Landscapes
5. The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape
6. Mobility and Migration in Taiwanese New Cinema
7. The Redemptive Realism of Korean Minjung Literature
Conclusion. Too Late, Too Soon: Globalization and New Asian Cities
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
