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In-Visible Palimpsest

Memory, Space and Modernity in Berlin and Shanghai

by Lu Pan (Author)
©2016 Monographs 291 Pages
Series: Eurosinica, Volume 15

Summary

In the early 1990s, Berlin and Shanghai witnessed the dramatic social changes in both national and global contexts. While in 1991 Berlin became the new capital of the reunified Germany, from 1992 Shanghai began to once again play its role as the most powerful engine of economic development in the post-1989 China. This critical moment of history has fundamentally transformed the later development of both cities, above all in terms of urban spatial order. The construction mania in Shanghai and Berlin shares the
similar aspiration of «re-modernizing» themselves. In this sense, the current experience of Shanghai and Berlin informs many of the features of urban modernity in the post-Cold-War era. The book unfolds the complexity of the urban space per se as highly revealing cultural texts. Also this project doesn’t examine the spatial changes in chronological terms, but rather takes the present moment as the temporal standing point of this research. By comparing the memory discourse related to these spatial changes, the book poses the question of how modernity is understood in the matrix of local, national and global power struggles.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Contested National Memories: Monument, Myth-Making, and Modernity
  • Chapter One: The Berlin Republic: Re-invoked Memories
  • Chapter Two: Monuments in Shanghai: The Invisible Turn
  • Part II: The Politics of Nostalgia: Memory, Space, and Competing Modernities
  • Chapter Three: City of Divided Memories: Two Kinds of Berlin Nostalgia
  • Chapter Four: Revisiting Shanghai Nostalgia: Local Memory as Resistance
  • Part III: Forgetting Modern Space? – Amnesia and the “Obsolescent” Modernities
  • Chapter Five: The Disappearing Berlin: Can the Wrongs be Undone?
  • Chapter Six: Other Shanghais: Missing Narratives of Urban Space
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography

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List of Figures

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Introduction

Details

Pages
291
Year
2016
ISBN (PDF)
9783035109115
ISBN (ePUB)
9783035192919
ISBN (MOBI)
9783035192902
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034316996
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0911-5
Language
English
Publication date
2016 (January)
Keywords
Space Modernity Berlin Shanghai Palimpsest Memory
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, New York, Wien, 2016. 294 pp., 4 b/w ill., 46 coloured ill.

Biographical notes

Lu Pan (Author)

Lu Pan received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong. Her current research interests include visual culture, urban space, war memory, and theories of aesthetics. She is author of Aestheticizing Public Space: Street Visual Politics in East Asian Cities. She is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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