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  • Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur

    Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City

    by Yat Ming Loo ...
    Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban landscape, which is at the core of Malaysia’s decolonisation projects, has marginalised the Chinese urban spaces which were once at the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Engaging with complex colonial and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Art of Remembering

    Urban Memories, Architecture and Agencies in Contemporary China

    Edited by Yat Ming Loo, Hua Li, Jing Xie, Eugenio Mangi ...
    Focusing on the non-Western context and case studies, this book explores theories of interdisciplinary architectural thinking and the construction of urban memory in Chinese cities, with an emphasis on contemporary architecture and the diversity of agencies.China has undergone one of the fastest urbanisation and urban renewal processes in human history, but discussions of urban memory in China ... Read more

    $244.99 USD

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  • Van Gogh on Demand

    China and the Readymade

    by Winnie Wong ...
    "Unsettles contemporary art's unspoken hierarchies and topples modernist and postmodernist assumptions about originality, authenticity, and authorship." — caa ReviewsIn a metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million paintings ... Read more

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  • China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market

    by Jiawen Han ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this phenomenon in detail. In particular, it highlights how changes in the social-political system, the ... Read more

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  • Governing Heritage Dissonance - Promises and Realities of Selected Cultural Policies

    by Višnja Kisić ...
    The European Cultural Foundation is delighted to announce the publication of Governing Heritage Dissonance: Promises and Realities of Selected Cultural Policies – a pioneering study by Višnja Kisić, winner of the 2013 Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA).Drawing on illuminating case studies from South East Europe, Kisić connects heritage studies and cultural policies with issues of difference, ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

    Edited by Edward L. Davis ...
    Series series Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture
    This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons to rock groups, underground Christian churches to TV talk shows and radio hotlines. Experimental ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • East Asia Modern

    Shaping the Contemporary City

    by Peter G. Rowe ...
    East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. Cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate, and this ongoing process of expansion and modernization is bringing rapid and widespread change to this part of the globe.Peter G. Rowe’s East Asia Modern is a timely comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examining the processes by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Understanding the Chinese City

    by Li Shiqiao ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This bookteaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by:exploring the rise of stories of labour, finance and their hierarchiesexamining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing systemanalyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

    Edited by Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Taipei

    City of Displacements

    by Joseph R. Allen ...
    Series series McLellan Endowed Series
    Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book PrizeThis cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Life and Death

    Art and the Body in Contemporary China

    by Silvia Fok ...
    Fok focuses on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals’ bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography. Over the course of her investigations, corporeality emerges as a common means of highlighting the social and cultural issues that surround these life and death. By assessing its effectiveness in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

    by Nicholas Jewell ...
    China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp ... Read more

    $73.99 USD