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.
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Table of Content
Preface
Note to Readers
Prologue
1. Mapping the City
2. Picturing the City
3. Traffic in the City
4. A Park in the City
5. Display in the City
6. Statues in the City
7. A Horse in a Park in a City on an Island in the Sea
Postface: Theoretical Considerations
Notes
Chinese and Japanese Glossary
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Joseph R. Allen is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Taipei: City of Displacements (University of Washington Press, 2012; winner of the Levenson Book Prize: Post-1900 China, Association of Asian Studies, 2014) and In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry (Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Press, 1992); translator of Forbidden Games & Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch’ing (University of Washington Press, 1993); and editor of a revised edition of The Book of Songs, translated by Arthur Waley (Grove Press, 1996; revised 2000, 2011).More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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