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Spectacle and the City : Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture / ed. by Lena Scheen, Jeroen de Kloet.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cities and Cultures ; 2Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 28 color plates, 17 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9789089644459
  • 9789048517022
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76095
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities -- 1. Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities -- 2. Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore -- 3. Coming of Age in RMB City -- 4. The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City -- 5. Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City -- 6. Tuning Urban China -- 7. The City’s (Dis)appearance in Propaganda -- 8. Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics -- 9. Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia -- 10. Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia -- 11. Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold -- 12. City Regeneration and Its Opposition -- 13. Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harbourcide’ -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: As China becomes increasingly modern and urban, artists have responded by imagining the Chinese city at the intersections of the social, material, and political realities of modern life. This volume explores how the city-as-spectacle has been visualized and contested in art and popular culture. Featuring essays by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, Spectacle and the City is as broad as the terrain it covers: with essays by an interdisciplinary team of experts on Chinese cities, as well as leading cultural critics, it goes beyond mainland China to include cities with cultural significance, such as Singapore and Hong Kong.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities -- 1. Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities -- 2. Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore -- 3. Coming of Age in RMB City -- 4. The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City -- 5. Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City -- 6. Tuning Urban China -- 7. The City’s (Dis)appearance in Propaganda -- 8. Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics -- 9. Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia -- 10. Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia -- 11. Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold -- 12. City Regeneration and Its Opposition -- 13. Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harbourcide’ -- Contributors -- Index

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As China becomes increasingly modern and urban, artists have responded by imagining the Chinese city at the intersections of the social, material, and political realities of modern life. This volume explores how the city-as-spectacle has been visualized and contested in art and popular culture. Featuring essays by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, Spectacle and the City is as broad as the terrain it covers: with essays by an interdisciplinary team of experts on Chinese cities, as well as leading cultural critics, it goes beyond mainland China to include cities with cultural significance, such as Singapore and Hong Kong.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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