The Art of Remembering: Urban Memories, Architecture and Agencies in Contemporary China [Hardcover]

Introduction (by editors)

Part 1 Theories and Methods of Remembering

Chapter 1: Urban Memory by Heart: A Cultural Question

Xing Ruan

?Chapter 2: Townscapes of Virtue: Urban Memory of Suzhou from Imperial China

Jing Xie

Chapter 3: Presencing Absence: History Memory Rewriting: Liu Kechengs Interpretative Architecture

Laura Anna Pezzetti

Chapter 4: Memory, City, Language

Shiqiao Li

Part 2 Practices and Agencies of Remembering I: City-image and Urban Memory

Chapter 5: Remembering the Red Memories in Shanghai: Urban Memory Reconstructed for Shaping the Future of the City and the Nation

Yongyi Lu

Chapter 6: Exhibition, Institution, and the Urban Memory: The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre and the Story of Making the City

Shih-Yao Lai

Chapter 7: Where the Dream Started: Branding Sea World and Shekous Urban Memories in China

Fong Yi Khoo, Yat Ming Loo and Jonathan Hale

Part 3 Practices and Agencies of Remembering II: Architecture and Memory

Chapter 8: How Do We Forget Through Architecture?: A Case Study on the Reconstructed Jiming Monastery in Nanjing

Zhuge Jing and Chen Ting

Chapter 9: Decoding Urban Memory and Affect: Utopian and Anti-Utopian Narratives in Jiakun Lius Novel and Architectural Works

Jiawen Han

Chapter 10: Invented Ruin, Concrete Memory: The Taizhou Contlã×