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Title Harbin to Hanoi : the colonial built environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940 / edited by Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Global Connections
Global connections.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Russia, Railways, and Urban Development in Manchuria, 1896-1930 -- Beans to Banners -- France, Brossard Mopin, and Manchukuo -- International Concessions and the Modernization of Tianjin -- Mapping Colonial Space -- The Architecture of Risk -- Fabricating Justice -- Making Space for Higher Education in Colonial Hong Kong, 1887-1913 -- Colonial Hanoi -- Hygienic Colonial Residences in Hanoi -- Domesticating the Suburbs -- Afterword.
Summary Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Architecture, Colonial -- Asia.
Architecture, Colonial.
Asia.
Colonies -- Asia -- History.
Colonies.
History.
Urbanization -- Asia -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Urbanization -- Asia -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Colonial cities -- Asia.
Colonial cities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Urbanization.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Added Author Zatsepine, Victor, editor.
Victoir, Laura A., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Victoir, Laura. Harbin to Hanoi : The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, ©2013 9789888139415
ISBN 9789882203891
9882203892
988818072X
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9789888139415
9789888139422