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Title:
Spectacle and the city : Chinese urbanities in art and popular culture
Author:
Kloet, Jeroen de, editor, author.
ISBN:
9789089644459
Publication Information:
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
261 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series:
Cities and cultures
Contents:
Speed and spectacle in Chinese cities / Ackbar Abbas -- Planned demi-monde and its aestheticisation in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat -- Coming of age in RMB City / Robin Visser -- The architecture of Utopia : from Rem Koolhaas' scale models to RMB City / Yomi Braester -- Imagining a disappearing and reappearing Chinese city / Jeroen de Kloet -- Tuning urban China / Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau -- The city's (dis)appearance in propaganda / Stefan Landsberger -- Claiming the past, presenting the present, selling the future : imagining a new Beijing, great Olympics / Gladys Pak Lei Chong -- Shanghai in film and literature : the danger of nostalgia / Gregory Bracken -- Nostalgia, place, and making peace with modernity in East Asia / Margaret Hillenbrand -- Femme fatales and male narcissists : Shanghai spectacle narrated, packaged and sold / Lena Scheen -- City regeneration and its opposition / Ou Ning -- Law, embodiment, and the case of 'harbourcide' / John Nguyet Erni.
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