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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790213403321

Autore

Watson Jini Kim <1973->

Titolo

The new Asian city [[electronic resource] ] : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / / Jini Kim Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4755-4

0-8166-7879-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

809/.933585009732

Soggetti

East Asian fiction - History and criticism

Cities and towns in literature

Urbanization in literature

Space in literature

Urbanization - East Asia - History

Cities and towns - East Asia - Growth - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities.

Sommario/riassunto

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 govern