The Postcolonial Condition of Architecture in Asia

Francis Chia-Hui Lin

doi:10.5771/9781793614049

Summary

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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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1403-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1404-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 222
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Figures No access
4. Preface No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. 1. Museums, Architecture, and Tourism No access
  2. Museum Work and Its Definition No access
  3. The Cultural Politics of Visualization, Spatialization, and Institutionalization No access
  4. A Theorization No access
  5. The Asian “Display-ness” Suggested by Museum Work No access
  6. Museum Architecture No access
  7. Summary No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. The Phenomenological Notion of Quotation No access
  2. Benjaminean Thoughts about Quotation No access
  3. The Notion Applied to a Context of the Philosophy of History No access
  4. The Architectural Quotation No access
  5. The Formalistic “Display-ness” of Asian Historicity No access
  6. Summary No access
  7. Notes No access
3. 1. Conventional Theories of Built Heritage Conservation No access
  2. “Display-ness” as a Form of Epistemological Integration No access
  3. 1. Theorization 1: A Managed Collection of Heterogeneity No access
    2. Theorization 2: (Quasi-)Museum Objects’ Ideological Representation No access
    3. Theorization 3: A Collection of Historicity No access
    4. Theorization 4: The Imagery of “Gating” No access
  4. Summary No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. The Special “Display-ness” No access
  2. Theorizing a National Museum No access
  3. A National Museum and Its Musealization No access
  4. Nation-Building and Identity Construction No access
  5. Institutionalization and Reification No access
  6. The Essence of Colony Architecture No access
  7. Summary No access
  8. Notes No access
2. 1. Expectation and Unexpectedness No access
  2. The Ongoing Theorization of the Unexpectedness No access
  3. Asia as “Display-ness” No access
  4. Testimonies to Asian “Display-ness”: Everyday Urbanism in Japan and Malaysia No access
  5. Summary No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Urban Musealization As an Observational Standpoint No access
  2. The First Wave and a Stylistic Focus No access
  3. The Second Wave and a Semiotic Focus No access
  4. The Third Wave and a Focus on Quotidian Instrumentality No access
  5. The Fourth Wave and a Focus on Showing a Form Inside Out No access
  6. Summary No access
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4. 1. The Chosen “Display-ness” No access
  2. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword No access
  3. The Postcolonial Condition of Asian Indigenousness No access
  4. Two Indigenous Sites No access
  5. The Display of the Decontextualization and Recontextualization No access
  6. Summary No access
  7. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 209 - 216
Index No access Pages 217 - 220
About the Author No access Pages 221 - 222