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Title:
Constructing the colonized land : entwined perspectives of East Asia around WWII
Series:
Design and the built environment
Publication Information:
London : Ashgate, 2014
Physical Description:
xx, 266 pages: illustrations. map; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781409428183

9781409428190

9781472404367
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Summary

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period. Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; the role played by various media; and the influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods. The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined architectural, urban and social history of East Asia, which offers insights into the cultural systems and the historical and spatial meanings of these colonized cities. It concludes that the difficulties in the historical study of East Asia's colonial cities do not so much indicate cultural difference as the potentiality for multiple readings of the past toward the future.


Author Notes

Izumi Kuroishi is at The Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.