LEADER 04780nam 2200637 450 001 9910811780303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-50422-5 024 7 $a10.7312/dung16100 035 $a(CKB)2670000000315670 035 $a(EBL)896843 035 $a(OCoLC)818854420 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803821 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12380924 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803821 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10811551 035 $a(PQKB)10476523 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC896843 035 $a(DE-B1597)458821 035 $a(OCoLC)979879823 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231504225 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL896843 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10976002 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL684551 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000315670 100 $a20141120h20122012 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAtlas $ethe archaeology of an imaginary city /$fDung Kai-cheung ; translated by Dung Kai-cheung, Anders Hansson, and Bonnie S. McDougall 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 1 $aWeatherhead Books on Asia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-53269-9 311 $a0-231-16100-X 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface: An Archaeology for the Future /$rKai-cheung, Dung --$tIntroduction /$rMcDougall, Bonnie S. --$tPart One: Theory --$t1 Counterplace --$t2 Commonplace --$t3. Misplace --$t4 Displace --$t5 Antiplace --$t6 Nonplace --$t7Extraterritoriality --$t8 Boundary --$t9 Utopia --$t10 Supertopia --$t11 Subtopia --$t12 Transtopia --$t12 Transtopia --$t14 Unitopia --$t15 Omnitopia --$tPart Two: The City --$t16 Mirage: City in the Sea --$t17 Mirage: Towers in the Air --$t18 Pottinger's inverted vision --$t19 Gordon's Jail --$t20 "Plan of the City of Victoria," 1889 --$t21 The Four Wan and Nine Yeuk --$t22 The Centaur of the East --$t23 Scandal Point and the Military Cantonment --$t24 Mr. Smith's One-Day Trip --$t25 The View from Government House --$t26 The Toad of Belcher's Dream --$t27 The Return of Kwan Tai Loo --$t28 The Curse of Tai Ping Shan --$t29 War Game --$tPart Three: Streets --$t30 Spring Garden Lane --$t31 Ice House Street --$t32 Sugar Street --$t33 Tsat Tsz Mui Road --$t34 Canal Road East and Canal Road West --$t35 Aldrich Street --$t36 Possession Street --$t37 Sycamore Street --$t38 Tung Choi Street and Sai Yeung Choi Street --$t39 Sai Yee Street --$t40 Public Square Street --$t41 Cedar Street --$tPart Four: Signs --$t42 The Decline of the Legend --$t43 The Eye of the Typhoon --$t44 Chek Lap Kok Airport --$t45 The Metonymic Spectrum --$t46 The Elevation of Imagination --$t47 Geological Discrimination --$t48 North-Oriented Declination --$t49 The Travel of Numbers --$t50 The Tomb of Signs --$t51 The Orbit of Time --$tAcknowledgments --$tAuthor & Translators 330 $aSet in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections-"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"-the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique.Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung's novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author's versatility and experimentation, along with China's rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British "handover" in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future. 410 0$aWeatherhead books on Asia. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisacsh 607 $aHong Kong (China)$vFiction 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. 676 $a895.1/352 700 $aDong$b Qizhang$f1967-$01609153 702 $aHansson$b Anders$f1944- 702 $aMcDougall$b Bonnie S.$f1941- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811780303321 996 $aAtlas$93936267 997 $aUNINA