Atlas : : The Archaeology of an Imaginary City / / Kai-cheung Dung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Dung, Kai-cheung,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dung, Kai-cheung.; Hansson, Anders.; McDougall, Bonnie.
• MitwirkendeR: Kai-cheung, Dung,; McDougall, Bonnie S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface: An Archaeology for the Future --; Introduction --; Part One: Theory --; 1 Counterplace --; 2 Commonplace --; 3. Misplace --; 4 Displace --; 5 Antiplace --; 6 Nonplace --; 7Extraterritoriality --; 8 Boundary --; 9 Utopia --; 10 Supertopia --; 11 Subtopia --; 12 Transtopia --; 14 Unitopia --; 15 Omnitopia --; Part Two: The City --; 16 Mirage: City in the Sea --; 17 Mirage: Towers in the Air --; 18 Pottinger's inverted vision --; 19 Gordon's Jail --; 20 "Plan of the City of Victoria," 1889 --; 21 The Four Wan and Nine Yeuk --; 22 The Centaur of the East --; 23 Scandal Point and the Military Cantonment --; 24 Mr. Smith's One-Day Trip --; 25 The View from Government House --; 26 The Toad of Belcher's Dream --; 27 The Return of Kwan Tai Loo --; 28 The Curse of Tai Ping Shan --; 29 War Game --; Part Three: Streets --; 30 Spring Garden Lane --; 31 Ice House Street --; 32 Sugar Street --; 33 Tsat Tsz Mui Road --; 34 Canal Road East and Canal Road West --; 35 Aldrich Street --; 36 Possession Street --; 37 Sycamore Street --; 38 Tung Choi Street and Sai Yeung Choi Street --; 39 Sai Yee Street --; 40 Public Square Street --; 41 Cedar Street --; Part Four: Signs --; 42 The Decline of the Legend --; 43 The Eye of the Typhoon --; 44 Chek Lap Kok Airport --; 45 The Metonymic Spectrum --; 46 The Elevation of Imagination --; 47 Geological Discrimination --; 48 North-Oriented Declination --; 49 The Travel of Numbers --; 50 The Tomb of Signs --; 51 The Orbit of Time --; Acknowledgments --; Author & Translators
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231504225; 9783110649772; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/dung16100
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kai-cheung Dung.

Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections-"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"-the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique.Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung's novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author's versatility and experimentation, along with China's rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British "handover" in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.