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This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city, we learn to look beyond surface ephemera, moving from the general to the particular to see socio-cultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts. Joseph R. Allen is professor of Chinese literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and author of In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry and translator of Forbidden Games and Video Poems: The Poetry of Yang Mu and Lo Ch'ing.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Taipei
• Subtitle: City of Displacements
• Author: Joseph R. Allen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780295991269
• ISBN: 0295991267
• ID: 04874959
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 2011

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