Painting the city red : Chinese cinema and the urban contract /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braester, Yomi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Asia-Pacific.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: film and the urban contract
  • New China, new Beijing : staging the socialist city of the future
  • A big dyeing vat : the rise of proletarian Shanghai and the fall of Nanjing Road
  • Mansions of uneven rhyme : Beijing courtyards and the instant city
  • The first precinct under heaven : state symbolism and unplanned urbanism at Tiananmen Square
  • Angel sanctuaries : Taipei's gentrification and the erasure of veterans' villages
  • "This is the story of our street" : urban preservation and the post-Maoist politics of memory
  • The day trip of your dreams : globalizing Beijing and the postspatial city