Forum of Thinking
Contemporary East Asian Cities: New Cultures, New Ideologies
《当代东亚城市:新的文化和意识形态》
Edited by Stephen CHAN,WANG Xiaoming
First published by Shanghai bookstore in June, 2008.
Content
From the Editor
Part One: Contemporary Cities, Historical Imaginations
NI Wenjian: From “Eileen Chang hype” to “Shanghai Dream”
Lawrence WONG: “The Hong Kong Story according to Hong Kong Chinese”: The permanent exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History
CHUA Beng Huat: Singapore: Constructing history, building nation
LAW Wing-sang: The world of Undercovers: (Non) Historical imagination of colonial Hong Kong
Part Two: Shanghai: New Spaces, New Ideologies
CAI Xiang: Hotels, the aesthetics of height or modernity
WANG Xiaoming: From architecture to advertisement – Changes of the Shanghai cityscape in the past 15 years
YE Kai: Xiangyang Road and Huaihai Road – Understanding the development of Shanghai consumer culture from two business models
LV Xinyu: Online fiction “Nie Zhai” (Debt), mass media, and the Shanghai story of a female migrant worker: About the TV documentary “Maomao goes to Court”
YUAN Jin: Exploring how the Shanghai media constructed the image of factory workers in early 1950s – the case of Shanghai No. 1 Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
Part Three: Cultural Reality and Critical Practices in the age of Globalization
Senno Takumasa: Where are we heading? – The subcultures and globalization of East Asian cities, and the birth and decline of modern literature
Meaghan Morris: On the Future of Parochialism: Globalization, “Young and Dangerous 4”, and Film Studies in Tuen Mun
Sakai Hirobumi: Cosmopolitan Culture: Popular Music and Modernity
LEI Qili: Reading between the lines of tabloids
Appendix