{"product_id":"the-new-asian-city-threedimensional-fictions-of-space-and-urban-form-9780816675739","title":"The New Asian City  ThreeDimensional Fictions of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCultural productions reveal a darker side to development in emblematic Asian Tiger cities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe New Asian City \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eReimagining the American Pacific: From ‘South Pacific’ to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eHong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Romanization\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Colonial Cities\u003cbr\u003e1. Imagining the Colonial City\u003cbr\u003e2. Orphans of Asia: Modernity and Colonial Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExport Production and the Blank Slate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Postwar Urbanism\u003cbr\u003e3. Narratives of Human Growth versus Urban Renewal \u003cbr\u003e4. The Disappearing Woman, Interiority, and Private Space \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoads, Railways, and Bridges: Arteries of the Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Industrializing Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e5. The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape \u003cbr\u003e6. Mobility and Migration in Taiwanese New Cinema\u003cbr\u003e7. The Redemptive Realism of Korean \u003ci\u003eMinjung\u003c\/i\u003e Literature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion. Too Late, Too Soon: Globalization and New Asian Cities \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405966713175,"sku":"9780816675739","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816675739.jpg?v=1730494075","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-asian-city-threedimensional-fictions-of-space-and-urban-form-9780816675739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}