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Harbin to Hanoi : the colonial built environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 / edited by Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine

Published
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
copyright 2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Victoir, Laura A. and Zatsepine, Victor
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Language Note
In English.
Contents
Introduction / Victor Zatsepine and Laura Victoir -- Russia, railways, and urban development in Manchuria, 1896-1930 / Victor Zatsepine -- Beans to banners : the evolving architecture of prewar Changchun / Bill Sewell -- France, Brossard Mopin, and Manchukuo / David Tucker -- International concessions and the modernization of Tianjin / Zhang Chang and Liu Yue -- Mapping colonial space : The planning and building of Quingdao by German Colonial Authorities, 1897-1914 / Klaus Mühlhahn -- The architecture of risk : urban space and uncertainty in Shanghai, 1843-74 / Cole Roskam -- Fabricating justice : conflict and contradiction in the making of the Hong Kong Supreme Court, 1898-1912 / G. A. Bremner -- Making space for higher education in Colonial Hong Kong, 1887-1913 / Peter Cunich -- Colonial Hanoi : urban space in public discourse / Lisa Drummond -- Hygienic colonial residences in Hanoi / Laura Victoir -- Domesticating the suburbs : architectural production and exchanges in Hanoi during the late French colonial era / Danielle Labbé, Caroline Herbelin, and Quang-Vinh Dao.
Summary
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 the regional diversity of the colonial built form found from Harbin to Hanoi, varied experiences of the foreign powers in Asia, flexible interactions between the colonizers and the colonized, and the risks entailed in building and living in these colonies and treaty ports.
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ISBN
9789888139415 (hardback)
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Title from resource description page (viewed January 14, 2020).
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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