Spectacle and the City : Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture.

Intro -- Spectacle and the City -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining Chinese Cities / Jeroen de Kloet and Lena Scheen -- Cultural Studies and Area Studies -- Spectacle and the City -- References -- 1. Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities / Ackbar Abbas -- 2. Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore / Chua Beng Huat -- Brand Singapore -- Geylang -- Planned Nation/Planned Demimonde -- Politics of Pathos -- Painting Geylang -- Filmic Representation as Political Critique -- Aesthetics of the Pathetic -- Beyond Liberal Humanism -- Notes -- References -- 3. Coming of Age in RMB City / Robin Visser -- The 'Integrated Spectacle' -- Brothers: Coming of Age through the Gaze -- RMB City: Liberating Possibilities for Domination -- Notes -- References -- 4. The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas' Scale Models to RMB City / Yomi Braester -- Utopia with Chinese Characteristics: From Conceptual to Figural Models -- Antitopia: Scale Models as Points of Contention -- Virtopia: RMB City -- Notes -- References -- 5. Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City / Jeroen de Kloet -- Perpetual Disappearance -- Welcome to Creative China -- Glass Factory -- RMB City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Tuning Urban China / Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau -- The Revolution Will Not be Televised -- Sound and Spectacle -- Strategies of Criticality -- The Emergence of Sound Art in the PRC -- Interactivity and Engagement -- Sound and the City -- Get it Louder -- Criticality -- Working-Class Neighbourhoods -- Fashion Soundwalk -- De-valuating Sound -- Zafka -- Environmentalism and Social Atomisation -- Conditioning Technologies -- Getting There &amp -- Away -- (Un)familiar Territories -- Abstraction and Virtuality -- Beyond Work and Self -- Concluding Remarks: Will the Revolution be Analysed? -- Notes -- References.

7. The City's (Dis)appearance in Propaganda / Stefan Landsberger -- The first decade of the PRC -- The Ten Great Buildings -- The 1960s -- Cultural Revolution -- Modernisation Days -- Post-Deng China -- Olympic Beijing, Expo Shanghai -- Final notes -- Notes -- References -- 8. Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics / Gladys Pak Lei Chong -- Re-membering the City -- Re-inventing the City (The Present) -- Mapping Beijing's Future (The Future) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources used -- References -- 9. Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia / Gregory Bracken -- Urban Disconnect -- Representations Old and New -- The Alleyway House in Literature: When We Were Orphans -- The Alleyway House in Literature: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow -- The Future of the Alleyway House? -- Shanghai's Urban Environment: the Bund -- Notes -- References -- Filmography -- 10. Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia / Margaret Hillenbrand -- Nostalgia, Place, and the Soil -- 'Armchair Nostalgia': The Memory Market in East Asia -- The Real Crux: City Versus Place -- An Alternative Aesthetic of Nostalgia: Young Thugs and In the Mood for Love -- Notes -- References -- 11. Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold / Lena Scheen -- Selling Her Body and Selling His Intellect -- A Complicated Love Story: Shanghai and the Femme Fatale -- The Screaming Body of a Shanghai Baby -- Whispering Souls on a Sandbed -- An Imagined Love Affair: Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 12. City Regeneration and Its Opposition / Ou Ning -- The Life and Death of Cities -- A Victory by the Common People? -- On the Street that Resists Demolition -- Facing the Bulldozers -- Forgetting and Remembering -- Notes -- References.

13. Law, Embodiment, and the Case of 'Harbourcide' / John Nguyet Erni -- 'Harbourcide' -- Preservation Versus Reclamation -- The Toxification of the Harbour -- Sensing the Law, Embodying the Environment -- The Protection of Harbour Ordinance in Action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

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