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the new asian cit y This page intentionally left blank The New Asian City (cid:2)(cid:3) Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form Jini Kim Watson university of minnesota press minneapolis • london Publication of this work has been supported in part through the generosity of the Abraham and Rebecca Stein Faculty Publication Fund of New York University. An earlier version of chapter was previously published as “Seoul and Singapore as ‘New Asian Cities’: Literature, Urban Transformation, and the Concentricity of Power,” positions: east asia cultures critique, no. (Spring ): –. A version of chapter has appeared previously as “The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape,” Contemporary Literature, no. (): –; copyright by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System; reproduced courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press. “Catering for the People” and “The Way Ahead” from Gods Can Die, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), . “Island” from Ulysses by the Merlion, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), . Copyright Edwin Thumboo. Reproduced courtesy of the author. All excerpts from Arthur Yap’s poetry are reproduced courtesy of Jenny Yap. Copyright by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press Third Avenue South, Suite Minneapolis, MN - http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Watson, Jini Kim. The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn---- (hc : alk. paper) — isbn---- (pbk. : alk. paper) . East Asian fiction—History and criticism. . Cities and towns in literature. . Urbanization in literature. . Space in literature. . Urbanization—East Asia—History. . Cities and towns—East Asia—Growth—History. I. Title. pl.w '.—dc Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. To my parents, Taisoo Kim and Keith Watson This page intentionally left blank As we gain perspective, from the long history of the literature of country and city, we see how much, at different times and in different places, it is a connecting process, in what has to be seen ultimately as a common history. —raymond williams, The Country and the City That space signifies is incontestable. But what it signifies is dos and don’ts—and this brings us back to power. —henri lefebvre,The Production of Space This page intentionally left blank Contents Note on Romanization / xi introduction The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei / part i Colonial Cities Imagining the Colonial City / Orphans of Asia: Modernity and Colonial Literature / transition Export Production and the Blank Slate / part ii Postwar Urbanism Narratives of Human Growth versus Urban Renewal / The Disappearing Woman, Interiority, and Private Space / transition Roads, Railways, and Bridges: Arteries of the Nation / part iii Industrializing Landscapes The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape /
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