Walking between slums and skyscrapers : illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai (Record no. 36969)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9622096360 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 307.3364 |
| Item number | HUA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Walking between slums and skyscrapers : illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Hong Kong |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Hong Kong Uni. Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 171p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | CONTENTS Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Walking in the Global City: Whose Open Space Is It? PART ONE Hong Kong Blue: Where Have All the Flaneurs Gone? 13 Walking in Between Eternal Dual Compression Chapter 1 Hong Kong: A Nodal Point of Dual Compression 15 From British Empire Colony to Disney Kingdom Outpost Disneyfication of the City: The Global Compression Not Just the Tourists: Local Compression and Public Housing in Hong Kong Chapter 2 Chungking Express: Walking With a Map of Desire in the 31 Mirage of the Global City Space of Fantasy/Map of Desire Lost in a Big City: Global Space as a Mirage Femme Fatale or Disoriented Dupe? The Walker With a Blonde Wig and a Wrong Map Multilingual as Global: The Talking Flaneur Looking for a Return Gaze Airport/Global Space/Women: The Self-pity Flaneur California Dreaming in Hong Kong: The Female Flaneur as a Mirror Chapter 3 Between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces: 49 Flaneuric With the Camera's Eye Shock Defense and the Director-Flaneur's Authentic Map of Hong Kong Shock Defense and Flaneur's Resistance to Modernization PART Two Between Global Flows and Carnal Flows: Walking in Tokyo 57 Chapter 4 Mimesis: The Violence of Space 63 Abstract Space Par Excellence: Global/Fragmentary Space of Tokyo Global City Tokyo: An Official Story All the Glittering Buildings: You Are What You See Chapter 5 From Mimesis to Mimicry: Memory, Subjectivity, and Space 77 Salaryman or Iron Man? Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer Of a Man and a Building: Tokyo Fist Walking as a Salaryman: What's Wrong With It? PART THREE Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Walking in Shanghai, a Global City 99 in the Making Chapter 6 Build it and They will Come: Transformation of Pudong Into a 103 Copy of the Global City Global City Formation: What Can Go Wrong? Chapter 7 From Alley Houses to High-rises: What Happened to the Lived Space?111 Mirror and Mirage: Whose Global City Is It? Chapter 8 Sleeping Beauty Waking up to a New World of Capital: 119 Wang Anyi's Shanghai Stories Mirage of Old Shanghai: Meitou and The Song of Unending Sorrow Looking for Shanghai: Meandering on Foot in a Labyrinthian City of Mirrors Coda 137 Bibliography139 Notes147 Index 167 |
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| CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 11/01/2013 | Baroda Book Corp. | 1728.12 | 14 | 15 | 307.3364 HUA | 010760 | 12/09/2023 | 24/08/2023 | 30/08/2013 | Book | Status:Catalogued;Bill No:C-6078 |