Search Results - "Taipei"

Old stories retold narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / by Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts -- Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped -- Tradition redux: parody and pathology -- Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction -- Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition -- Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection -- The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition -- Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people -- Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow -- Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.…”
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The new Asian city three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / by Watson, Jini Kim, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei -- Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate -- Part II. …”
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