1st Edition
Shanghai Expo An International Forum on the Future of Cities
1. A Forum on the Futures of Cities by Tim Winter Part One: In Context 2. Shanghai 2010, in a Tradition of Mega Events, Nation-building and Modernity by Tim Winter 3. I Wish I Knew: Comprehending China’s Cultural Reform by Hilary Hongjin He 4. Better City, Better Life? Visioning a Sustainable Shanghai by Cameron McAuliffe 5. On Expo’s Hinterlands, Extrastatecraft and Migrant Workers by Brett Neilson 6. The ‘Economic Olympics’? Shanghai 2010 after Beijing 2008 by David Rowe Part Two: Encounter 7. On Display: The State of the World by Ien Ang 8. Ordinary City, Ordinary Life: Off the Expo Map by Willem Paling 9. Cultural Exotica: From the Colonial to Global in World’s Fairs by Tim Winter 10. Culture, Nation and Technology: Immersive Media and the Saudi Arabia Pavilion by Hart Cohen 11. Tracing the Future: Child’s play and the Free Fall of Imagination by Scott East 12. Video Assemblages of Shanghai by Juan Salazar 13. Afterword by Tony Bennett. Bibliography. Index
Biography
Tim Winter is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on heritage, development, modernity and tourism in Asia. He is currently working on a book on the history of world's fairs.
