TY  - BOOK
AU  - Victoir,Laura
AU  - Zatsepine,Victor
TI  - Harbin to Hanoi: the Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940
T2  - Global Connections
SN  - 9789882203891
AV  - HT119 .H373 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Hong Kong
PB  - Hong Kong University Press, HKU
KW  - Colonial cities
KW  - Asia
KW  - History
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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