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The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form

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Description for The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 government buildings—become figured within fictional and political texts uncovers how massive transformations of citizenries and cities were rationalized, perceived, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816675739
SKU
V9780816675739
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Ref
99-50

About Jini Kim Watson
Jini Kim Watson is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at New York University.

Reviews for The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form
"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 ... Read more

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