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Harbin to Hanoi the Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789882203891
  • 9882203892
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HT119 .H373 2013
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Contents:
Subject: Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered and unpredictable. This book uncovers t.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Contributors; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Russia, Railways, and Urban Development in Manchuria, 1896-1930; 3. Beans to Banners; 4. France, Brossard Mopin, and Manchukuo; 5. International Concessions and the Modernization of Tianjin; 6. Mapping Colonial Space; 7. The Architecture of Risk; 8. Fabricating Justice; 9. Making Space for Higher Education in Colonial Hong Kong, 1887-1913; 10. Colonial Hanoi; 11. Hygienic Colonial Residences in Hanoi; 12. Domesticating the Suburbs; 13. Afterword; Index; Plates.

Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered and unpredictable. This book uncovers t.

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