Painting the city red
Subtitle: Chinese cinema and the urban contract
By: Yomi Braester.
Series: Asia-Pacific: culture, politics, and society; Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822347064; 9780822347231
Subjects: Motion pictures -- China; Cities and towns in motion pictures; City and town life in motion pictures; Theater -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: film and the urban contract; title: New China, new Beijing : staging the socialist city of the future; title: A big dyeing vat : the rise of proletarian Shanghai and the fall of Nanjing Road; title: Mansions of uneven rhyme : Beijing courtyards and the instant city; title: The first precinct under heaven : state symbolism and unplanned urbanism at Tiananmen Square; title: Angel sanctuaries : Taipei's gentrification and the erasure of veterans' villages; title: "This is the story of our street" : urban preservation and the post-Maoist politics of memory; title: The day trip of your dreams : globalizing Beijing and the postspatial city