Title & Author:

Harbin to Hanoi : the colonial built environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 / edited by Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine.

Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

xiii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Global connections

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Victor Zatsepine and Laura Victoir -- Russia, railways, and urban development in Manchuria, 1896-1930 / Victor Zatsepine -- Beans to banners: the evolving architecture of prewar Changchun / Bill Sewell -- France, Brossard Mopin, and Manchukuo / David Tucker -- International concessions and the modernization of Tianjin / Zhang Chang and Liu Yue -- Mapping colonial space: The planning and building of Quingdao by German Colonial Authorities, 1897-1914 / Klaus Mühlhahn -- The architecture of risk: urban space and uncertainty in Shanghai, 1843-74 / Cole Roskam -- Fabricating justice: conflict and contradiction in the making of the Hong Kong Supreme Court, 1898-1912 / G.A. Bremner -- Making space for higher education in Colonial Hong Kong, 1887-1913 / Peter Cunich -- Colonial Hanoi: urban space in public discourse / Lisa Drummond -- Hygienic colonial residences in Hanoi / Laura Victoir -- Domesticating the suburbs: architectural production and exchanges in Hanoi during the late French colonial era / Danielle Labbé, Caroline Herbelin, and Quang-Vinh Dao -- Afterword.

Summary:

"Colonial powers in China and northern Indochina employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of colonial power, a tool in the mission to civilize, a recreation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work for the colonizers and the colonized. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked both at the top and bottom levels of the society and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multi layered, complicated, and unpredictable. This book stresses the regional diversity of the colonial built form found from Harbin to Hanoi, diverse experiences of the foreign powers in Asia, flexible interactions between the colonizers and the colonized, and the many risks entailed in building and living in these colonies and treaty ports."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9789888139415 (hbk.)
988813941X (hbk.)
9789888139422 (pbk.)
9888139428 (pbk.)

Subject:

Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum
The Vietnam War Filmmusik
Colonial cities Asia.
Urbanization Asia History 19th century.
Urbanization Asia History 20th century.
Colonies Asia History.
Architecture, Colonial Asia.
Villes coloniales Asie.
Urbanisation Asie Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisation Asie Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture coloniale Asie.
Society.
Architecture, Colonial
Colonial cities
Colonies
Urbanization
Kolonialismus
Infrastruktur
Architektur
Kolonialstil
Europäer
Asia
China
Hanoi
Schanghai

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Victoir, Laura A., editor.
Zatsepine, Victor, editor.
Global connections (Hong Kong University Press)

Colonial built environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282377
Call No.: BIB 219811
Status: Available