Cities surround the countryside
Subtitle: urban aesthetics in post-socialist China
By: Robin Visser.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780822347095; 9780822347286
Subjects: Cities and towns -- China -- History -- 21st century; City and town life -- China -- History -- 21st century; Aesthetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Designing the postsocialist city : urban planning and its discontents; title: Theorizing the postsocialist city : cultural politics of urban aesthetics; title: Performing the postsocialist city : Beijing identity in art, film, and fiction; title: Consuming the postsocialist city : Shanghai identity in art, film, and fiction; title: The melancholic urban subject : black snow, private life, breathing, and candy; title: Postsocialist urban ethics : modernity and the morality of everyday life; title: Conclusion: sustainable Chinese aesthetics.