ISBN:
9789048517022
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
Series Statement:
Cities and Cultures
Series Statement:
Cities and Cultures Ser v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version de Kloet, Jeroen Spectacle and the City : Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Arts and society -- China -- 21st century
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China -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
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Cities and towns -- Asia -- 21st century
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Cities and towns in mass media
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Popular culture -- China -- 21st century
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Arts and society ; China ; 21st century
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China ; Social life and customs ; 21st century
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Cities and towns ; Asia ; 21st century
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Cities and towns in mass media
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Popular culture ; China ; 21st century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
As China becomes increasingly modern and urban, artists have responded by imagining the Chinese city at the intersections of the social, material, and political realities of modern life. This volume explores how the city-as-spectacle has been visualized and contested in art and popular culture. Featuring essays by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, Spectacle and the City is as broad as the terrain it covers: with essays by an interdisciplinary team of experts on Chinese cities, as well as leading cultural critics, it goes beyond mainland China to include cities with cultural significance, such as Singapore and Hong Kong
Abstract:
Spectacle and the City -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining Chinese Cities / Jeroen de Kloet and Lena Scheen -- Cultural Studies and Area Studies -- Spectacle and the City -- References -- 1. Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities / Ackbar Abbas -- 2. Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat -- Brand Singapore -- Geylang -- Planned Nation/Planned Demimonde -- Politics of Pathos -- Painting Geylang -- Filmic Representation as Political Critique -- Aesthetics of the Pathetic -- Beyond Liberal Humanism -- Notes -- References -- 3. Coming of Age in RMB City / Robin Visser -- The 'Integrated Spectacle' -- Brothers: Coming of Age through the Gaze -- RMB City: Liberating Possibilities for Domination -- Notes -- References -- 4. The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas' Scale Models to RMB City / Yomi Braester -- Utopia with Chinese Characteristics: From Conceptual to Figural Models -- Antitopia: Scale Models as Points of Contention -- Virtopia: RMB City -- Notes -- References -- 5. Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City / Jeroen de Kloet -- Perpetual Disappearance -- Welcome to Creative China -- Glass Factory -- RMB City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Tuning Urban China / Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau -- The Revolution Will Not be Televised -- Sound and Spectacle -- Strategies of Criticality -- The Emergence of Sound Art in the PRC -- Interactivity and Engagement -- Sound and the City -- Get it Louder -- Criticality -- Working-Class Neighbourhoods -- Fashion Soundwalk -- De-valuating Sound -- Zafka -- Environmentalism and Social Atomisation -- Conditioning Technologies -- Getting There & Away -- (Un)familiar Territories -- Abstraction and Virtuality -- Beyond Work and Self -- Concluding Remarks: Will the Revolution be Analysed? -- Notes -- References
Abstract:
7. The City's (Dis)appearance in Propaganda / Stefan Landsberger -- The first decade of the PRC -- The Ten Great Buildings -- The 1960s -- Cultural Revolution -- Modernisation Days -- Post-Deng China -- Olympic Beijing, Expo Shanghai -- Final notes -- Notes -- References -- 8. Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics / Gladys Pak Lei Chong -- Re-membering the City -- Re-inventing the City (The Present) -- Mapping Beijing's Future (The Future) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources used -- References -- 9. Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia / Gregory Bracken -- Urban Disconnect -- Representations Old and New -- The Alleyway House in Literature: When We Were Orphans -- The Alleyway House in Literature: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow -- The Future of the Alleyway House? -- Shanghai's Urban Environment: the Bund -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- 10. Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia / Margaret Hillenbrand -- Nostalgia, Place, and the Soil -- 'Armchair Nostalgia': The Memory Market in East Asia -- The Real Crux: City Versus Place -- An Alternative Aesthetic of Nostalgia: Young Thugs and In the Mood for Love -- Notes -- References -- 11. Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold / Lena Scheen -- Selling Her Body and Selling His Intellect -- A Complicated Love Story: Shanghai and the Femme Fatale -- The Screaming Body of a Shanghai Baby -- Whispering Souls on a Sandbed -- An Imagined Love Affair: Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 12. City Regeneration and Its Opposition / Ou Ning -- The Life and Death of Cities -- A Victory by the Common People? -- On the Street that Resists Demolition -- Facing the Bulldozers -- Forgetting and Remembering -- Notes -- References
Abstract:
13. Law, Embodiment, and the Case of 'Harbourcide' / John Nguyet Erni -- 'Harbourcide' -- Preservation Versus Reclamation -- The Toxification of the Harbour -- Sensing the Law, Embodying the Environment -- The Protection of Harbour Ordinance in Action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index
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