The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form

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Under Jini Kim Watson's scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their colonized past and globalized present.

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"The New Asian City is capacious, probing, and exciting as it cuts across Asian global fields: Jini Kim Watson makes the Pacific Rim urban space boom, transform, and resonate with life force, social knowledge, and urban creativity." Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond

"This is an unusually interesting book. It is remarkable not because the New Asian City is analyzed in terms of the latest urban theory available, but because it demonstrates how much farther urban theory has to go to catch up with the Asian city." Ackbar Abbas, author of Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Author Bio

Jini Kim Watson is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at New York University.