Constructing the Colonized Land : Entwined Perspectives of East Asia Around WWII

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period. Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; the role played by various media; and the influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods. The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined architectural, urban and social history of East Asia, which offers insights into the cultural systems and the historical and spatial meanings of these colonized cities. It concludes that the difficulties in the historical study of East Asia's colonial cities do not so much indicate cultural difference as the potentiality for multiple readings of the past toward the future.

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period.

Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Introduction; 1 A Study of Japanese Colonial Architecture in East Asia; 2 Recentering the City: Municipal Architecture in Shanghai, 1927-1937; 3 Scholarship and Political Identity: Asianism in Tadashi Sekino's Survey; 4 Transplanting State Shinto: The Reconfiguration of Existing Built and Natural Environments; 5 From Political Governance and Spatial Restructure to Urban Transformation; 6 Macau's Urban Transformation 1927-1949; 7 Colonial Modernity and Urban Space: Seoul and the 1930s Land Readjustment Project 8 On Park Kil-ryong's Discovering, Understanding, and Designing of Korean Architecture9 Domesticating Others' Space: Surveys and Reforms of Housing in Chosen and Japan by Wajiro Kon; Index