Atlas : : The Archaeology of an Imaginary City / / 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 "Sig...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Weatherhead Books on Asia
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface: An Archaeology for the Future --   |t Introduction --   |t Part One: Theory --   |t 1 Counterplace --   |t 2 Commonplace --   |t 3. Misplace --   |t 4 Displace --   |t 5 Antiplace --   |t 6 Nonplace --   |t 7Extraterritoriality --   |t 8 Boundary --   |t 9 Utopia --   |t 10 Supertopia --   |t 11 Subtopia --   |t 12 Transtopia --   |t 12 Transtopia --   |t 14 Unitopia --   |t 15 Omnitopia --   |t Part Two: The City --   |t 16 Mirage: City in the Sea --   |t 17 Mirage: Towers in the Air --   |t 18 Pottinger's inverted vision --   |t 19 Gordon's Jail --   |t 20 "Plan of the City of Victoria," 1889 --   |t 21 The Four Wan and Nine Yeuk --   |t 22 The Centaur of the East --   |t 23 Scandal Point and the Military Cantonment --   |t 24 Mr. Smith's One-Day Trip --   |t 25 The View from Government House --   |t 26 The Toad of Belcher's Dream --   |t 27 The Return of Kwan Tai Loo --   |t 28 The Curse of Tai Ping Shan --   |t 29 War Game --   |t Part Three: Streets --   |t 30 Spring Garden Lane --   |t 31 Ice House Street --   |t 32 Sugar Street --   |t 33 Tsat Tsz Mui Road --   |t 34 Canal Road East and Canal Road West --   |t 35 Aldrich Street --   |t 36 Possession Street --   |t 37 Sycamore Street --   |t 38 Tung Choi Street and Sai Yeung Choi Street --   |t 39 Sai Yee Street --   |t 40 Public Square Street --   |t 41 Cedar Street --   |t Part Four: Signs --   |t 42 The Decline of the Legend --   |t 43 The Eye of the Typhoon --   |t 44 Chek Lap Kok Airport --   |t 45 The Metonymic Spectrum --   |t 46 The Elevation of Imagination --   |t 47 Geological Discrimination --   |t 48 North-Oriented Declination --   |t 49 The Travel of Numbers --   |t 50 The Tomb of Signs --   |t 51 The Orbit of Time --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Author & Translators 
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520 |a 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. 
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588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) 
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