The new Asian city three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / [electronic resource] :
Jini Kim Watson.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- 311 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate -- Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation -- Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature -- Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
East Asian fiction--History and criticism. Cities and towns in literature. Urbanization in literature. Space in literature. Urbanization--History.--East Asia Cities and towns--Growth--History.--East Asia