Taipei - Joseph R. Allen

Taipei

City of Displacements

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2011
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99125-2 (ISBN)
113,45 inkl. MwSt
Analyses socio-cultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize

This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city, we learn to look beyond surface ephemera, moving from the general to the particular to see sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.

Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM

Joseph R. Allen is professor of Chinese literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and author of In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry and translator of Forbidden Games and Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing.

Preface

Note to Readers

Prologue

1. Mapping the City

2. Picturing the City

3. Traffic in the City

4. A Park in the City

5. Display in the City

6. Statues in the City

7. A Horse in a Park in a City on an Island in the Sea

Postface: Theoretical Considerations

Notes

Chinese and Japanese Glossary

Works Cited

Index

Reihe/Serie Taipei
Zusatzinfo 35 illus.
Verlagsort Seattle
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 612 g
Themenwelt Reiseführer Asien China
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-295-99125-9 / 0295991259
ISBN-13 978-0-295-99125-2 / 9780295991252
Zustand Neuware
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