Watson, Jini Kim, 1973-

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.


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2011.
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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


Electronic books.

PL493 / .W37 2011eb

809/.933585009732