Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities

Jeroen de Kloet; Lena Scheen

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Kloet, Jeroen de and Scheen, Lena. "Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities". Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture, edited by de Kloet, Jeroen and Lena Scheen, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013, pp. 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517022-002

Kloet, J. & Scheen, L. (2013). Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities. In de Kloet, Jeroen & L. Scheen (Ed.), Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture (pp. 11-20). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517022-002

Kloet, J. and Scheen, L. 2013. Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities. In: de Kloet, Jeroen. and Scheen, L. ed. Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 11-20. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517022-002

Kloet, Jeroen de and Scheen, Lena. "Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities" In Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture edited by de Kloet, Jeroen and Lena Scheen, 11-20. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517022-002

Kloet J, Scheen L. Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities. In: de Kloet, Jeroen, Scheen L (ed.) Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; 2013. p.11-20. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048517022-002

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Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 7
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities 11
1. Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities 21
2. Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore 27
3. Coming of Age in RMB City 43
4. The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City 61
5. Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City 77
6. Tuning Urban China 97
7. The City’s (Dis)appearance in Propaganda 121
8. Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics 135
9. Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia 157
10. Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia 171
11. Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold 191
12. City Regeneration and Its Opposition 211
13. Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harbourcide’ 227
Contributors 243
Index 247

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 7
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction Imagining Chinese Cities 11
1. Speed and Spectacle in Chinese Cities 21
2. Planned Demi-monde and its Aestheticisation in Singapore 27
3. Coming of Age in RMB City 43
4. The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas’ Scale Models to RMB City 61
5. Imagining a Disappearing and Reappearing Chinese City 77
6. Tuning Urban China 97
7. The City’s (Dis)appearance in Propaganda 121
8. Claiming the Past, Presenting the Present, Selling the Future: Imagining a New Beijing, Great Olympics 135
9. Shanghai in Film and Literature: The Danger of Nostalgia 157
10. Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia 171
11. Femme Fatales and Male Narcissists: Shanghai Spectacle Narrated, Packaged and Sold 191
12. City Regeneration and Its Opposition 211
13. Law, Embodiment, and the Case of ‘Harbourcide’ 227
Contributors 243
Index 247

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