Braester / Chow / Harootunian Painting the City Red

Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9275-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 420 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

An examination of the role of cinema and theater in representing urban transformations in China from 1949 to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braester, Yomi

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Film and the Urban Contract 1

1. New China, New Beijing: Staging the Socialist City of the Future 27

2. A Big Dyeing Vat: The Rise of Proletarian Shanghai and the Fall of Nanjing Road 56

3. Mansions of Uneven Rhyme: Beijing Courtyards and the Instant City 95

4. The First Precinct Under Heaven: State Symbolism and Unplanned Urbanism at Tiananmen Square 151

5. Angel Sanctuaries: Taipei's Gentrification and the Erasure of Veterans' Villages 187

6. "This is the Story of Our Street": Urban Preservation and the Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 224

7. The Day Trip of Your Dreams: Globalizing Beijing and the Postspatial City 281

Notes 311

Filmography 341

Stage Plays 351

Bibliography 353

Index 383

Über Autor(innen)

Yomi Braester is Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Witness against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China.