Spectacle and the City : : Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture / / ed. by Lena Scheen, Jeroen de Kloet.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abbas, Ackbar,; Bracken, Gregory,; Braester, Yomi,; Chong, Gladys Pak Lei,; Erni, John Nguyet,; Groenewegen-Lau, Jeroen,; Hillenbrand, Margaret,; Huat, Chua Beng,; Kloet, Jeroen de,; Landsberger, Stefan,; Ning, Ou,; Scheen, Lena,; Visser, Robin,
• HerausgeberIn: Scheen, Lena,; de Kloet, Jeroen,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Cities and Cultures ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 28 color plates, 17 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities --; 1. Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities --; 2. Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore --; 3. Coming of Age in RMB City --; 4. The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City --; 5. Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City --; 6. Tuning Urban China --; 7. The City’s (Dis)appearance in Propaganda --; 8. Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics --; 9. Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia --; 10. Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia --; 11. Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold --; 12. City Regeneration and Its Opposition --; 13. Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harbourcide’ --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048517022; 9783110700671; 9783110606515; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048517022?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lena Scheen, Jeroen de Kloet.

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.