Yomi Braester

Painting the City Red

Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract

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Produktbeschreibung

A historical account of how films and theater pieces created in the PRC (and Taiwan) since 1949 have interacted with state and local governments, developers and city planners, and ordinary residents in the dramatic urbanization of China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347064
• ISBN-10: 0822347067
• Artikelnr.: 30216956

Autorenporträt

Yomi Braester

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Film and the Urban Contract 1
1. New China, New Beijing: Staging the Socialist City of the Future 27
2. A Big Dyeing Vat: The Rise of Proletarian Shanghai and the Fall of
Nanjing Road 56
3. Mansions of Uneven Rhyme: Beijing Courtyards and the Instant City 95
4. The First Precinct Under Heaven: State Symbolism and Unplanned Urbanism
at Tiananmen Square 151
5. Angel Sanctuaries: Taipei's Gentrification and the Erasure of Veterans'
Villages 187
6. "This is the Story of Our Street": Urban Preservation and the
Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 224
7. The Day Trip of Your Dreams: Globalizing Beijing and the Postspatial
City 281
Notes 311
Filmography 341
Stage Plays 351
Bibliography 353
Index 383