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Taipei: City of Displacements in Franklin, TN
Current price: $110.00
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Taipei: City of Displacements in Franklin, TN
Current price: $110.00
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Size: Hardcover
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize
This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of
Taipei
, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjectsmaps, public art, parksJoseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as
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 sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.
Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM
This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of
Taipei
, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjectsmaps, public art, parksJoseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as
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 sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.
Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize
This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of
Taipei
, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjectsmaps, public art, parksJoseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as
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 sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.
Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM
This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of
Taipei
, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjectsmaps, public art, parksJoseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as
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 sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.
Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM
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