TY  - GEN
AU  - Watson, Jini Kim
TI  - New Asian city : Three dimensional fictions of space and urban form
SN  - 9780816675739
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Note on Romanization   xi
Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei            1
Part I. Colonial cities        27
1.Imagining the colonial city        27
2. orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature               53
Transition : Export production and the blank slate       87
Part II. Postwar urbanism          
3. Narratives of human growth versus urban renewal            99
4. The disappearing woman, interiority, and private space       133
Transition roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation       167
Part III. Industrializing landscapes         
5. The way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape    179
6. Mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema   203
7. The redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature       227
Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities   251
Acknowledgements     257
Notes    259
Bibliography    277
Index     293

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