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Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical,
cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying
Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei
and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual
character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and
development through architecture. Focussing on the concept of a
heteroglossic Asia Pacific, exemplified by the analysis of Taiwan's
urban transformation, the study argues that Taiwan's urban
environment shows a form of intended "fuzziness" which cannot be
described as resting on either a simplified nationalist base or
chaotic societal anxiety. Rather, this form lies between binary
poles: autocracy and democracy, nation state and day-to-day life,
top-down and bottom-up orientations, orthodoxy and hybridisation.
Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical,
cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying
Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei
and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual
character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and
development through architecture. Focussing on the concept of a
heteroglossic Asia Pacific, exemplified by the analysis of Taiwan's
urban transformation, the study argues that Taiwan's urban
environment shows a form of intended "fuzziness" which cannot be
described as resting on either a simplified nationalist base or
chaotic societal anxiety. Rather, this form lies between binary
poles: autocracy and democracy, nation state and day-to-day life,
top-down and bottom-up orientations, orthodoxy and hybridisation.
This book is the first overall and detailed discussion of
contemporary Asia's architectural theorisations and phenomena based
on its heteroglossic and decolonisation character. Lin presents a
theoretical journey of transdisciplinary reflection upon
contemporary Asia's pragmatic phenomena which is methodologically
achieved by means of elaborations of how tangible Asian
architecture can be philosophically theorised and how
interchangeable architectural theory is practically 'Asianised'.
Discussions in the book are critically integrated with comparative
studies focused on Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. These empirical
examinations are highlights of phenomenal localities, architecture,
cities and cultures which reference the historicity of the Asia
Pacific, Asia's contemporary architectural situations, and their
subtle relationship with the 'West'. The schematisation of intended
'fuzziness' for Asia and its architecture is framed as the notion
polychronotypic jetztzeit to represent a present time-place context
of contemporary Asian architecture and urbanism. This book will be
of great interest to scholars of Asian Studies, Architectural
Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Urban Studies and Cultural Studies.
This book is the first overall and detailed discussion of
contemporary Asia's architectural theorisations and phenomena based
on its heteroglossic and decolonisation character. Lin presents a
theoretical journey of transdisciplinary reflection upon
contemporary Asia's pragmatic phenomena which is methodologically
achieved by means of elaborations of how tangible Asian
architecture can be philosophically theorised and how
interchangeable architectural theory is practically 'Asianised'.
Discussions in the book are critically integrated with comparative
studies focused on Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. These empirical
examinations are highlights of phenomenal localities, architecture,
cities and cultures which reference the historicity of the Asia
Pacific, Asia's contemporary architectural situations, and their
subtle relationship with the 'West'. The schematisation of intended
'fuzziness' for Asia and its architecture is framed as the notion
polychronotypic jetztzeit to represent a present time-place context
of contemporary Asian architecture and urbanism. This book will be
of great interest to scholars of Asian Studies, Architectural
Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Urban Studies and Cultural Studies.
This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's
spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities
are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into
architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common
divisor" are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a
common divisor is conditioned to Asia's phenomenal postcolonial
subjectivation and showcases Asia's unique character. This book
contends that the postcolonial condition of architecture in Asia
suggests a potential and critical bridge to better understanding of
the region. Theoretically, "display-ness" is a strategic and
allegoric carrier that is in the focus of this book in order to
emphasize the quality of display in a broader sense of time and
space. Asia's architectural and urban spectacle thus is meaningly
magnified and intensified with this notion of display-ness to
ground the cohesive abstraction among ideological discourse
production, innovative theorizations, and empirical phenomena in
contemporary scholarship.
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