Visser Cities Surround The Countryside

Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9277-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 373 Seiten

Explores the cultural significance of the explosive growth of Chinas cities during the past three decades through interpretations of Chinese fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visser, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Cities Surround the Countryside 1

Part One. Conceiving the Postsocialist City

1. Designing the Postsocialist City: Urban Planning and Its Discontents 27

2. Theorizing the Postsocialist City: Cultural Politics of Urban Aesthetics 85

Part Two. The City as Subject

3. Performing the Postsocialist City: Beijing Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 131

4. Consuming the Postsocialist City: Shanghai Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 175

Part Three. The Subject in the City

5. The Melancholic Urban Subject: Black Snow, Private Life, Breathing, and Candy 225

6. Postsocialist Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life 255

Conclusion: Sustainable Chinese Aesthetics 287

Notes 295

Bibliography 331

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.