Introduction Cities Surround the Countryside

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Cities Surround the Countryside 1
5. Part One. Conceiving the Postsocialist City
6. 1. Designing the Postsocialist City Urban Planning and Its Discontents 27
7. 2. Theorizing the Postsocialist City The Cultural Politics of Urban Aesthetics 85
8. Part Two. The City as Subject
9. 3. Performing the Postsocialist City Beijing Identity in Art, Cinema, and Fiction 131
10. 4 Consuming the Postsocialist City Shanghai Identity in Art, Cinema, and Fiction 175
11. Part Three. The Subject in the City
12. 5 The Melancholic Urban Subject Black Snow, Private Life, Breathing, and Candy 225
13. 6 Postsocialist Urban Ethics Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life 255
14. Conclusion. Sustainable Chinese Aesthetics 287
15. Notes 295
16. Bibliography 329
17. Index 351