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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Weatherhead Books on Asia
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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