Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Imagining Chinese Cities
- 1 Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities
- 2 Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore
- 3 Coming of Age in RMB City
- 4 The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City
- 5 Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City
- 6 Tuning Urban China
- 7 The City's (Dis)appearance in Propaganda
- 8 Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics
- 9 Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia
- 10 Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia
- 11 Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold
- 12 City Regeneration and Its Opposition
- 13 Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harbourcide’
- Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Imagining Chinese Cities
- 1 Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities
- 2 Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore
- 3 Coming of Age in RMB City
- 4 The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City
- 5 Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City
- 6 Tuning Urban China
- 7 The City's (Dis)appearance in Propaganda
- 8 Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics
- 9 Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia
- 10 Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia
- 11 Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold
- 12 City Regeneration and Its Opposition
- 13 Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harbourcide’
- Contributors
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Spectacle and the CityChinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture, pp. 9 - 10Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2013