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The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia: A Lead from Display-ness

By (author) Francis Chia-Hui Lin

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This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asiaâ€™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 â€œcommon divisorâ€ are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a common divisor is conditioned to Asiaâ€™s phenomenal postcolonial subjectivation and showcases Asiaâ€™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, â€œdisplay-nessâ€ 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. Asiaâ€™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.