Painting the city red: Chinese cinema and the urban contract

Abstract

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Film and the Urban Contract 1 1. New China, New Beijing: Staging the Socialist City of the Future 27 2. A Big Dyeing Vat: The Rise of Proletarian Shanghai and the Fall of Nanjing Road 56 3. Mansions of Uneven Rhyme: Beijing Courtyards and the Instant City 95 4. The First Precinct Under Heaven: State Symbolism and Unplanned Urbanism at Tiananmen Square 151 5. Angel Sanctuaries: Taipei's Gentrification and the Erasure of Veterans' Villages 187 6. This is the Story of Our Street: Urban Preservation and the Post-Maoist Politics of Memory 224 7. The Day Trip of Your Dreams: Globalizing Beijing and the Postspatial City 281 Notes 311 Filmography 341 Stage Plays 351 Bibliography 353 Index 383

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