Assesses the cultural impact of China's unprecedented level of urbanization by looking at urban planning, architecture, and cultural debates as well as film and fiction relevant to urbanization.
Assesses the cultural impact of China's unprecedented level of urbanization by looking at urban planning, architecture, and cultural debates as well as film and fiction relevant to urbanization.
Robin Visser is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Cities Surround the Countryside 1 Part One. Conceiving the Postsocialist City 1. Designing the Postsocialist City: Urban Planning and Its Discontents 27 2. Theorizing the Postsocialist City: Cultural Politics of Urban Aesthetics 85 Part Two. The City as Subject 3. Performing the Postsocialist City: Beijing Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 131 4. Consuming the Postsocialist City: Shanghai Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 175 Part Three. The Subject in the City 5. The Melancholic Urban Subject: Black Snow, Private Life, Breathing, and Candy 225 6. Postsocialist Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life 255 Conclusion: Sustainable Chinese Aesthetics 287 Notes 295 Bibliography 331 Index 353
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Cities Surround the Countryside 1 Part One. Conceiving the Postsocialist City 1. Designing the Postsocialist City: Urban Planning and Its Discontents 27 2. Theorizing the Postsocialist City: Cultural Politics of Urban Aesthetics 85 Part Two. The City as Subject 3. Performing the Postsocialist City: Beijing Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 131 4. Consuming the Postsocialist City: Shanghai Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 175 Part Three. The Subject in the City 5. The Melancholic Urban Subject: Black Snow, Private Life, Breathing, and Candy 225 6. Postsocialist Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life 255 Conclusion: Sustainable Chinese Aesthetics 287 Notes 295 Bibliography 331 Index 353
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