The new Asian city
Subtitle: three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
By: Jini Kim Watson
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780816675722; 9780816675739
Subjects: Urbanization in literature; East Asian fiction; Space in literature; Cities and towns; History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Urbanization; Growth; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei; title: Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate; title: Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation; title: Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature; title: Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities.