Taipei: City of Displacements by Allen, Joseph R.

Taipei: City of Displacements (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780295991269)

Vendor: Joseph R. Allen
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$32.00
$32.00
$32.00
Subtotal: $32.00
Taipei: City of Displacements by Allen, Joseph R.

Taipei: City of Displacements

$32.00
Taipei: City of Displacements by Allen, Joseph R.

Taipei: City of Displacements

$32.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x

Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize

This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city, we learn to look beyond surface ephemera, moving from the general to the particular to see sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.

Watch the book trailer: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM

Author: Joseph R. Allen
ISBN-10: 0295991267
ISBN-13: 9780295991269
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2011
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2012

By Joseph R. Allen
By Joseph R. Allen
x

Joseph R. Allen is professor of Chinese literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and author of In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry and translator of Forbidden Games and Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing.

Recently Viewed Products