{"product_id":"the-new-asian-city-three-dimensional-fictions-of-space-and-urban-form-paperback-softback-9780816675739","title":"The New Asian City; Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816675739","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe New Asian City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThree-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJini Kim Watson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816675739\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe New Asian City \u003c\/i\u003eis capacious, probing, and exciting as it cuts across Asian global fields: Jini Kim Watson makes the Pacific Rim urban space boom, transform, and resonate with life force, social knowledge, and urban creativity.\" -Rob Wilson, author of \u003ci\u003eReimagining the American Pacific: From ‘South Pacific’ to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is an unusually interesting book. It is remarkable not because the New Asian City is analyzed in terms of the latest urban theory available, but because it demonstrates how much farther urban theory has to go to catch up with the Asian city.\" -Ackbar Abbas, author of \u003ci\u003eHong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnder 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExamining how newly constructed spaces-including expressways, high-rises, factory zones, department stores, and government buildings-become figured within fictional and political texts uncovers how massive transformations of citizenries and cities were rationalized, perceived, and fictionalized. Watson shows how literature, film, and poetry have described and challenged contemporary Asian metropolises, especially around the formation of gendered and laboring subjects in these new spaces. She suggests that by embracing the postwar growth-at-any-cost imperative, they have buttressed the nationalist enterprise along neocolonial lines. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New Asian City\u003c\/i\u003e provides an innovative approach to how we might better understand the gleaming metropolises of the Pacific Rim. In doing so, it demonstrates how reading cultural production in conjunction with built environments can enrich our knowledge of the lived consequences of rapid economic and urban development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote on Romanization\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Colonial Cities\u003cbr\u003e1. Imagining the Colonial City\u003cbr\u003e2. Orphans of Asia: Modernity and Colonial Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExport Production and the Blank Slate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Postwar Urbanism\u003cbr\u003e3. Narratives of Human Growth versus Urban Renewal \u003cbr\u003e4. The Disappearing Woman, Interiority, and Private Space \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoads, Railways, and Bridges: Arteries of the Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III. Industrializing Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e5. The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape \u003cbr\u003e6. Mobility and Migration in Taiwanese New Cinema\u003cbr\u003e7. The Redemptive Realism of Korean \u003ci\u003eMinjung\u003c\/i\u003e Literature \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusion. Too Late, Too Soon: Globalization and New Asian Cities \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570079330584,"sku":"9780816675739","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-new-asian-city-three-dimensional-fictions-of-space-and-urban-form-paperback-softback-9780816675739","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}