TY - BOOK AU - Watson,Jini Kim ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The new Asian city: three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form AV - PL493 .W37 2011eb U1 - 809/.933585009732 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - East Asian fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Cities and towns in literature KW - Urbanization in literature KW - Space in literature KW - Urbanization KW - East Asia KW - History KW - Cities and towns KW - Growth KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10534328 ER -