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Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur - Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City (Paperback)
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Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur - Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City (Paperback)
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Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of
the British Empire which today prides itself in being a
multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of
the urban landscape, which is at the core of Malaysia's
decolonisation projects, has marginalised the Chinese urban spaces
which were once at the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Engaging with complex
colonial and postcolonial aspects of the city, from the British
colonial era in the 1880s to the modernisation period in the 1990s,
this book demonstrates how Kuala Lumpur's urban landscape is
overwritten by a racial agenda through the promotion of Malaysian
Architecture, including the world-famous mega-projects of the
Petronas Twin Towers and the new administrative capital of
Putrajaya. Drawing on a wide range of Chinese community archives,
interviews and resources, the book illustrates how Kuala Lumpur's
Chinese spaces have been subjugated. This includes original case
studies showing how the Chinese re-appropriated the Kuala Lumpur
old city centre of Chinatown and Chinese cemeteries as a way of
contesting state's hegemonic national identity and ideology. This
book is arguably the first academic book to examine the
relationship of Malaysia's large Chinese minority with the politics
of architecture and urbanism in Kuala Lumpur. It is also one of the
few academic books to situate the Chinese diaspora spaces at the
centre of the construction of city and nation. By including the
spatial contestation of those from the margins and their resistance
against the state ideology, this book proposes a recuperative urban
and architectural history, seeking to revalidate the marginalised
spaces of minority community and re-script them into the narrative
of the postcolonial nation-state.
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