Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII
Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014
266 pp.
ISBN: 9781409428183 (hbk)
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Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period. Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; thee role played by various media; and influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods. The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined architectural, urban and social history of East Asia, which offers insights into the cultural systems and the historical and spatial meanings of these colonized cities. It concludes that the difficulties in the historical study of East Asia’s colonial cities do not so much indicate cultural difference as the potentiality for multiple readings of the past toward the future.

Table of contents:

Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII

Foreword by Prasenjit Duara

Introduction
Izumi Kuroishi

Chapter 1 A Study of Japanese Colonial Architecture in East Asia Yasuhiko Nishizawa

Chapter 2 Recentering the City: Municipal Architecture in Shanghai, 1927-1937 Cole Roskam

Chapter 3 Scholarship and Political Identity: Asianism in Tadashi Sekino’s Survey of Chinese Heritage before 1935 Xu Subin

Chapter 4 Transplaniting State Shinto: The Reconfiguration of Existing Built and Natural Environments in Colonized Taiwan Akihito Aoi

Chapter 5 From Political Governance and Spatial Restructure to Urban Transformation and Architectural Achievements: Discourse on Architecture in the Japanese Colonial Period, 1895-1945 Chao-Ching Fu

Chapter 6 Macau’s Urban Transformation 1927-1949: The Significance of Sino-Portuguese Foreign Relations in the Urban Form Paula Morais

Chapter 7 Colonial Modernity and Urban Space: Seoul and the 1930s Land Reajustment Project Junichiro Ishida and Jooya Kim

Chapter 8 On Park Kil-ryong’s Discovering, Understanding, and Designing of Korean Architecture Woo Don-Son

Chapter 9 Domesticating Other’s Space: Surveys and Reforms of Housing in Chosen and Japan by Wajiro Kon Izumi Kuroishi

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