Cities surround the countryside : urban aesthetics in post-socialist China
"Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. Interpreting fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design, she analyzes how the aesthetics of the urban environment have shaped the emotions and behavior of people and cultures, and how individual and collective images of and practices in the city have produced urban aesthetics. By relating the built environment to culture, Visser situates postsocialist Chinese urban aesthetics within local and global economic and intellectual trends." --
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Author: | Visser, Robin, 1962- |
| Subject: |
Cities and towns City and town life Aesthetics |
| Publication Year: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, c2010. |
| ISBN: | 9780822347286 0822347288 9780822347286 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-350) and index. Designing the postsocialist city : urban planning and its discontents -- Theorizing the postsocialist city : cultural politics of urban aesthetics -- Performing the postsocialist city : Beijing identity in art, film, and fiction -- Consuming the postsocialist city : Shanghai identity in art, film, and fiction -- The melancholic urban subject : black snow, private life, breathing, and candy -- Postsocialist urban ethics : modernity and the morality of everyday life -- Conclusion: sustainable Chinese aesthetics. |
| Course: |
HIST350 |
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Online Resources
| Location | Call number | Status |
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| English Book (4/F) | 307.7609510905 VIS 2010 | Available |