LEADER 03489nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910790213403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4529-4755-4 010 $a0-8166-7879-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151015 035 $a(EBL)863819 035 $a(OCoLC)777565070 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612399 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11368038 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612399 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10570835 035 $a(PQKB)11716018 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC863819 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29973 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL863819 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10534328 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525620 035 $a(PPN)161881483 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151015 100 $a20110202d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe new Asian city$b[electronic resource] $ethree-dimensional fictions of space and urban form /$fJini Kim Watson 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7573-2 311 $a0-8166-7572-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aUnder 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 606 $aEast Asian fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCities and towns in literature 606 $aUrbanization in literature 606 $aSpace in literature 606 $aUrbanization$zEast Asia$xHistory 606 $aCities and towns$zEast Asia$xGrowth$xHistory 615 0$aEast Asian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCities and towns in literature. 615 0$aUrbanization in literature. 615 0$aSpace in literature. 615 0$aUrbanization$xHistory. 615 0$aCities and towns$xGrowth$xHistory. 676 $a809/.933585009732 700 $aWatson$b Jini Kim$f1973-$01573519 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790213403321 996 $aThe new Asian city$93849266 997 $aUNINA