Main entry:

Dong, Qizhang, 1967-

Title & Author:

Atlas : the archaeology of an imaginary city / by Dung Kai-cheung ; translated by Dung Kai-Cheung, Anders Hansson, and Bonnie S. McDougall.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.

Description:

xxxiii, 158 pages : maps ; 19 cm.

Series:

Weatherhead books on Asia

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface: An archaeology for the future / Dung Kai-cheung -- Introduction / Bonnie S. McDougall. -- Part one. Theory: 1. Counterplace -- 2. Commonplace -- 3. Misplace -- 4. Displace -- 5. Antiplace -- 6. Nonplace -- 7. Extraterritoriality -- 8. Biundary -- 9. Utopia -- 10. Supertopia -- 11. Subtopia -- 12. Transtopia -- 13. Multitopia -- 14. Unitopia -- 15. Omnitopia. -- Part two. The city: 16. Mirage : city in the sea -- 17. Mirage : towers in the air -- 18. Pottinger's inverted vision -- 19. Gordon's jail -- 20. "Plan of the city of Victoria," 1889 -- 21. The four wan and the nine yeuk -- 22. The centaur of the east -- 23. Scandal point and the military cantonment -- 24. Mr. Smith's one-day trip -- 25. The view from Government House -- 26. The toad of Belcher's dream -- 27. The return of Kwan Tai Loo -- 28. The curse of Tai Ping Shan -- 29. War game. -- Part three. Streets: 30. Spring garden lane -- 31. Ice House Street -- 32. Sugar Street -- 33. Tsat Tsz Mui Road -- 34. Canal Road East and Canal Road West -- 35. Aldrich Street -- 36. Possession Street -- 37. Sycamore Street -- 38. Tung Choi Street and Sai Yeung Choi Street -- 39. Sai Yee Street -- 40. Public Square Street -- 41. Cedar Street. -- Part four. Signs: 42. The decline of the legend -- 42. The eye of the typhoon -- 44. Chek Lap Kok Airport -- 45. The metonymic spectrum -- 46. The elevation of imagination -- 47. Geological discrimination -- 48. North-oriented declination -- 49. The travel of numbers -- 50. The tomb of signs -- 51. The orbit of time. -- Acknowledgments -- Author and translations.

Summary:

Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), this book is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. It reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique.--From book jacket.

ISBN:

9780231161008 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
023116100X (cloth ; acid-free paper)
(electronic)
9780231504225
0231504225 (electronic)
9780231504225 (electronic)

Subject:

Hong Kong (China) Fiction.
China Hong Kong

Form/genre:

Fiction.
novels.
Novels
Romans.

Added entries:

Hansson, Anders, 1944-
McDougall, Bonnie S., 1941-
Weatherhead books on Asia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 281180
Call No.: BIB 218306
Status: Available