Contents
Note on Romanization
Introduction: The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei
Part I. Colonial Cities
1. Imagining the Colonial City
2. Orphans of Asia: Modernity and Colonial Literature
Export Production and the Blank Slate
Part II. Postwar Urbanism
3. Narratives of Human Growth versus Urban Renewal
4. The Disappearing Woman, Interiority, and Private Space
Roads, Railways, and Bridges: Arteries of the Nation
Part III. Industrializing Landscapes
5. The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape
6. Mobility and Migration in Taiwanese New Cinema
7. The Redemptive Realism of Korean Minjung Literature
Conclusion. Too Late, Too Soon: Globalization and New Asian Cities
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index