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Taipei : city of displacements / Joseph R. Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Joseph Roe.
- Series:
- McLellan Endowed Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Taiwan--Taipei--History.
- City and town life.
- Public spaces--Taiwan--Taipei--History.
- Public spaces.
- Architecture and society--Taiwan--Taipei--History.
- Architecture and society.
- National characteristics, Taiwan.
- Political culture--Taiwan--Taipei--History.
- Political culture.
- Regime change--Social aspects--Taiwan--Taipei--History.
- Regime change.
- Social change--Taiwan--Taipei--History.
- Social change.
- Taipei (Taiwan)--Description and travel.
- Taipei (Taiwan).
- Taipei (Taiwan)--Social life and customs.
- Taipei (Taiwan)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2011.
- Summary:
- Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city, we learn to look beyond surface ephemera, moving from the general to the particular to see sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Mapping the city
- Picturing the city
- Traffic in the city
- A park in the city
- Display in the city
- Statues in the city
- A horse in a park in a city on an island in the sea
- Postface: Theoretical considerations
- Chinese and Japanese names and terms.
- Notes:
- "A McLellan book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780295804262
- 0295804262
- OCLC:
- 932315458
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