New Asian City

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

"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

• ContentsNote on RomanizationIntroduction: The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei Part I. Colonial Cities1. Imagining the Colonial City2. Orphans of Asia: Modernity and Colonial LiteratureExport Production and the Blank SlatePart II. Postwar Urbanism3. Narratives of Human Growth versus Urban Renewal 4. The Disappearing Woman, Interiority, and Private Space Roads, Railways, and Bridges: Arteries of the NationPart III. Industrializing Landscapes5. The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape 6. Mobility and Migration in Taiwanese New Cinema7. The Redemptive Realism of Korean Minjung Literature Conclusion. Too Late, Too Soon: Globalization and New Asian Cities AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex