Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
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Hong Kong
Becoming a Chinese Global City
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional...
Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge
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Global Shanghai, 1850–2010
A History in Fragments
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is...
Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge
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The City in South Asia
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000...
Published April 2nd 2008 by Routledge
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Singapore
Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative approach, Trocki demonstrates the links between Singapore’s colonial past and independent present...
Published September 27th 2005 by Routledge
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Representing Calcutta
Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the...
Published April 24th 2005 by Routledge
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Bangkok
Place, Practice and Representation
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and past. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous...
Published June 26th 2002 by Routledge