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eBook
Taipei
2012,2011
Overview
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize
This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city, we learn to look beyond surface ephemera, moving from the general to the particular to see sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.
Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Subject
/ Architecture and society -- Taiwan -- Taipei -- History
/ Asia
/ China
/ Cities
/ City and town life -- Taiwan -- Taipei -- History
/ HISTORY
/ National characteristics, Taiwan
/ Political culture -- Taiwan -- Taipei -- History
/ Public spaces -- Taiwan -- Taipei -- History
/ Regime change -- Social aspects -- Taiwan -- Taipei -- History
/ Social change -- Taiwan -- Taipei -- History
/ Taipei
/ Taipei (Taiwan) -- Description and travel
/ Taipei (Taiwan) -- Politics and government
/ Taipei (Taiwan) -- Social life and customs
/ Taiwan
ISBN
0295991259, 9780295991252, 9780295991269, 0295991267, 9780295804262, 0295804262
