Spectacle and the city : Chinese urbanities in art and popular culture / edited by Jeroen de Kloet and Lena Scheen.
China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible e...
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[2013]
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Table of 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.