02251nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10534328 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110202s2011 mnu sb 001 0 eng d 2011003818 9780816675722 (hc alk. paper) 9780816675739 (pbk. alk. paper) 9780816678792 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)777565070 ae----- PL493 .W37 2011eb 809/.933585009732 22 Watson, Jini Kim, 1973- The new Asian city [electronic resource] : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011. 311 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate -- Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation -- Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature -- Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. East Asian fiction History and criticism. Cities and towns in literature. Urbanization in literature. Space in literature. Urbanization East Asia History. Cities and towns East Asia Growth History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10534328 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 235827 235827