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Spectacle and the City Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture
278 Pages
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Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
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China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified cityscape? How to realign artistic expressions of the... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Imagining Chinese Cities JEROEN DE KLOET AND LENA SCHEEN 1 Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities ACKBAR ABBAS 2 Planned Demimonde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore City CHUA BENG HUAT 3 Coming of Age in RMB City ROBIN VISSER 4 The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City YOMI BRAESTER 5 Fantasies of a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City JEROEN DE KLOET 6 Tuning Urban China JEROEN GROENEWEGEN 7 The City’s (Dis)appearance in Propaganda STEFAN LANDSBERGER 8 Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics GLADYS PAK LEI CHONG 9 Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia GREGORY BRACKEN 10 Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia MARGARET HILLENBRAND 11 Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold LENA SCHEEN 12 City Regeneration and Its Opposition OU NING 13 Law, Embodiment, and the Case of “Harborcide” JOHN NGUYET ERNI.
Biography
Jeroen de Kloet is Professor at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and affiliated to the School of Music and Recording Arts, Communication University of China. De Kloet’s publications cover Chinese popular music and youth cultures. His ERC project concerns creative practices in China.
Lena Scheen is assistant professor/faculty fellow at New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai).
