| Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Imprint; Subvention; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Fear, Loathing, Eco-Desire: Chinese Pollution in a Transnational World; 2. Changing Chongming; 3. Dreaming Green: Engineering the Eco-City; 4. It's a Green World After All? Marketing Nature and Nation in Suburban Shanghai; 5. Imagining Ecological Urbanism at the World Expo; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; Select Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory-combined with an increasing desire worldwide for inexpensive toys, clothes, and food-are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs of this desire: toys drenched in lead paint, dangerous medicines, and tainted pet food. Examining sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, suburbanization projects, and the Shanghai World Expo, Julie Sze interrogates Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and the eco-technological fantasi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States.
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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United States. |
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Sustainable development -- China -- Shanghai.
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Sustainable development. |
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China -- Shanghai. |
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Urban renewal -- China -- Shanghai.
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Urban renewal. |
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Urban ecology (Sociology) -- China -- Shanghai.
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Chongming Qu (Shanghai, China)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sze, Julie. Fantasy islands : Chinese dreams and ecological fears in an age of climate crisis. Oakland, California : University of California Press, ©2015 235 pages 9780520262485 |
| ISBN |
9780520959828 (electronic book) |
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0520959825 (electronic book) |
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9780520284487 |
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9780520262485 |
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