Issue 2.1 Asian Urbanisms and Urbanization (Spring 2016)

Table of Contents, Volume 2 – Issue 1

 

Editors’ Introduction

On the Space and Time of Urban Asia | Shuang Shen, Madhuri Desai, and Tina Chen

Convergence

Portfolio

The Poetics and Politics of Space: Art, Memory, and Change in the Indian City. Curated | Preeti Chopra

Codex

An Interdisciplinary Review of Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces by SanSan Kwan | Curated and with an Introduction | Dan Bacalzo

Field Trip

Introduction: Mapping Urban Imaginaries | Shuang Shen and Madhuri Desai

Bodies That Map: Overseas Singaporeans and the Urban Imagination | Cheryl Narumi Naruse

Return Economies: Speculation and Manila’s Investment in Durable Futures | Eric J. Pido

Finding Happiness in the Chinese Suburban Technopolis: White Supremacy in Silicon Valley, California | Brian Su-Jen Chung

The Immigrant Enclave and The Satanic Verses: Race and Religion in Purgatory | Nasia Anam

Decaffeinated England: Thames Town and Its Discontents | Calvin Hui

Translation

Zheng Xiaoqiong’s Poems on the Global Connection to Urbanization and the Plight of Migrant Workers in China | Translated by Zhou Xiaojing

Selected Poems of Zheng Xiaoqiong | Translated by Zhou Xiaojing

Essays

Theses on the Translation of (Chinese) Architecture | Andrea Bachner

The Global War City: Traces of the Militarized Past in Saigon’s Urbanized Future | Long T. Bui

Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law: Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement | Laikwan Pang

Clear Weather in Boston’s Chinatown: Chinese Landscapes in the Anthropocene | De-nin Lee

Asian City as Affective Space: Commercial Signs and Mood in the Paintings of Manoël Pillard | Seunghan Paek

 

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