Cities Surround The Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

Abstract

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Cities Surround the Countryside 1 Part One. Conceiving the Postsocialist City 1. Designing the Postsocialist City: Urban Planning and Its Discontents 27 2. Theorizing the Postsocialist City: Cultural Politics of Urban Aesthetics 85 Part Two. The City as Subject 3. Performing the Postsocialist City: Beijing Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 131 4. Consuming the Postsocialist City: Shanghai Identity in Art, Film, and Fiction 175 Part Three. The Subject in the City 5. The Melancholic Urban Subject: Black Snow, Private Life, Breathing, and Candy 225 6. Postsocialist Urban Ethics: Modernity and the Morality of Everyday Life 255 Conclusion: Sustainable Chinese Aesthetics 287 Notes 295 Bibliography 331 Index 353

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