Unreal Estate: Postsocialist China’s Dystopic Dreamscapes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Part 1: History’s Playground
5. The Ideological Park: How the Tsar’s Garden in Kyiv Became a Modern Political Space 25
6. The Last Soviet City 47
7. Spaces of Detachment 67
8. Part 2: Friendship of the Peoples?
9. Contemporary Ukrainian Russian-Language Poetry and Post-Soviet Literary Space 95
10. (Re)Inventing (East) Central Europe: Literary Expeditions into a Lost Space 117
11. Postsocialist Hybridities: Finding a Place in Kyrgyzstan 143
12. Space under Siege. Sarajevo during and after the War 161
13. Part 3: “Minus Stalin”
14. The Limits of Central Planning: Rudimentary Town Centers in the Planned Cities of Stalinstadt and Sztálinváros 183
15. Neighborhood Socialism: A Memoir from 1960s Sofia 205
16. Mourning the Microrayon: An Essay in Affective Geography 217
17. (Re)Mapping National Space: The One Hundred Tourist Sites of Bulgaria and Their Metamorphoses 235
18. Part 4: Traveling Boundaries
19. The Monument de la Renaissance africaine and Global Routes of (Socialist) Monumentalism: New York, Moscow, Pyongyang, Dakar 255
20. The Gendered Anxieties of Apartment Living in North Korea, 1953-65 281
21. Unreal Estate: Postsocialist China’s Dystopic Dreamscapes 305
22. Authors 321