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9789622096363

Walking Between Slums and Skyscrapers

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  • ISBN13:

    9789622096363

  • ISBN10:

    9622096360

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-30
  • Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr
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Summary

"The book is concerned with the effects of globalization on living space (i.e. the space of everyday life), focusing specifically on East Asian metropolises, such a Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Globalization has given rise to accessible catch-phrases such as the "global village" and "this is a small world." In each part of the book the author juxtaposes a "social" account of the city's urban space as it has been reshaped by the process of globalization with a "private" account of the urban landscape as experienced by its walkers (as represented in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Shinya Tsukamoto and the novels of Wang Anyi). Rather than rest here, the author wishes to show that for many of the inhabitants of the new global city, the "shrinking world" phenomenon is deeply literal: the "lived" space of everyday life is shrinking to make room for rezoning, construction of new infrastructures, and space modification - all in the name of urban development."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Tsung-yi Michelle Huang is currently an Assistant Professor of English Literature at National Taiwan Normal University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction Walking in the Global City: Whose Open Space Is It? 1(12)
Part One Hong Kong Blue: Where Have All the Flaneurs Gone?
13(44)
Walking in Between Eternal Dual Compression
Hong Kong: A Nodal Point of Dual Compression
15(16)
From British Empire Colony to Disney Kingdom Outpost
Disneyfication of the City: The Global Compression
Not Just the Tourists: Local Compression and Public Housing in Hong Kong
Chungking Express: Walking With a Map of Desire in the Mirage of the Global City
31(18)
Space of Fantasy/Map of Desire
Lost in a Big City: Global Space as a Mirage
Femme Fatale or Disoriented Dupe? The Walker With a Blonde Wig and a Wrong Map
Multilingual as Global: The Talking Flaneur Looking for a Return Gaze
Airport/Global Space/Women: The Self-pity Flaneur
California Dreaming in Hong Kong: The Female Flaneur as a Mirror
Between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces: Flaneurie With the Camera's Eye
49(8)
Shock Defense and the Director-Flaneur's Authentic Map of Hong Kong
Shock Defense and Flaneur's Resistance to Modernization
Part Two Between Global Flows and Carnal Flows: Walking in Tokyo
57(42)
Mimesis: The Violence of Space
63(14)
Abstract Space Par Excellence: Global/Fragmentary Space of Tokyo
Global City Tokyo: An Official Story
All the Glittering Buildings: You Are What You See
From Mimesis to Mimicry: Memory, Subjectivity, and Space
77(22)
Salaryman or Iron Man? Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Of a Man and a Building: Tokyo Fist
Walking as a Salaryman: What's Wrong With It?
Part Three Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Walking in Shanghai, a Global City in the Making
99(38)
``Build it and They will Come'': Transformation of Pudong Into a Copy of the Global City
103(8)
Global City Formation: What Can Go Wrong?
From Alley Houses to High-rises: What Happened to the Lived Space?
111(8)
Mirror and Mirage: Whose Global City Is It?
Sleeping Beauty Waking up to a New World of Capital: Wang Anyi's Shanghai Stories
119(18)
Mirage of Old Shanghai: ``Meitou'' and The Song of Unending Sorrow
Looking for Shanghai: Meandering on Foot in a Labyrinthian City of Mirrors
Coda 137(2)
Bibliography 139(8)
Notes 147(20)
Index 167

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