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- Book Title
- Atlas : the Archaeology of an Imaginary City
- Publication Name
- Atlas
- Title
- Atlas
- Subtitle
- The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
- Translator
- Bonnie S. McDougall
- Contributor
- Bonnie S. McDougall (Translated by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 023116100X
- EAN
- 9780231161008
- ISBN
- 9780231161008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Release Date
- 17/07/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.7in
- Series
- Weatherhead Books on Asia
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Topic
- Asian / Chinese, General, Literary, Science Fiction / General
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 10.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections--"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"--the novel reimagines Victoria through maps and other historical documents and artifacts, mixing real-world scenarios with purely imaginary people and events while incorporating anecdotes and actual and fictional social commentary and critique. Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung's novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author's versatility and experimentation, along with China's rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British "handover" in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
023116100x
ISBN-13
9780231161008
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038260041
Product Key Features
Book Title
Atlas : the Archaeology of an Imaginary City
Original Language
Japanese
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asian / Chinese, General, Literary, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.7in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl2936.3.O54d52813
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
Readers pleased by cliff-hanging, nail-biting, page-turning adventure will not be satisfied with "Atlas." Devotees of writers as curious as Borges, Calvino and Eco, will love this map of maps of an imaginary city.Japan Times, Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City is a most unusual work in the history of modern Chinese literature: part fiction, part history, part theory-all in the service of the author's unique method of fictional 'archaeology,' an endeavor that has unearthed a wealth of materials-streets, buildings, personalities, names and signs, and marvels and legends-about this 'vanished' city, the traces of which constitute the sum total of Hong Kong's cultural memory. A cross between fact and fiction, history and mystery, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, this work defies all generic categories and now stands as a contemporary classic., ...seamless, yet eccentric...a playful yet poignant invitation to begin layering new symbols and projections over the city's landscape., Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City is a most unusual work in the history of modern Chinese literature: part fiction, part history, part theory--all in the service of the author's unique method of fictional 'archaeology,' an endeavor that has unearthed a wealth of materials--streets, buildings, personalities, names and signs, and marvels and legends--about this 'vanished' city, the traces of which constitute the sum total of Hong Kong's cultural memory. A cross between fact and fiction, history and mystery, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, this work defies all generic categories and now stands as a contemporary classic., Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City is a most unusual work in the history of modern Chinese literature: part fiction, part history, part theory -- all in the service of the author's unique method of fictional 'archaeology,' an endeavor that has unearthed a wealth of materials -- streets, buildings, personalities, names and signs, and marvels and legends -- about this 'vanished' city, the traces of which constitute the sum total of Hong Kong's cultural memory. A cross between fact and fiction, history and mystery, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, this work defies all generic categories and now stands as a contemporary classic., Readers pleased by cliff-hanging, nail-biting, page-turning adventure will not be satisfied with "Atlas." Devotees of writers as curious as Borges, Calvino and Eco, will love this map of maps of an imaginary city.
Table of Content
Preface: An Archaeology for the Future, by Dung Kai-cheung Introduction, by Bonnie S. McDougall Part One: Theory 1. Counterplace 2. Commonplace 3. Misplace 4. Displace 5. Antiplace 6. Nonplace 7. Extraterritoriality 8. Boundary 9. Utopia 10. Supertopia 11. Subtopia 12. Transtopia 13. Multitopia 14. Unitopia 15. Omnitopia Part Two: The City 16. Mirage: City in the Sea 17. Mirage: Towers in the Air 18. Pottinger's Inverted Vision 19. Gordon's Jail 20. "Plan of the City of Victoria," 1889 21. The Four Wan and Nine Yeuk 22. The Centaur of the East 23. Scandal Point and the Military Cantonment 24. Mr. Smith's One-Day Trip 25. The View from Government House 26. The Toad of Belcher's Dream 27. The Return of Kwan Tai Loo 28. The Curse of Tai Ping Shan 29. War Game Part Three: Streets 30. Spring Garden Lane 31. Ice House Street 32. Sugar Street 33. Tsat Tsz Mui Road 34. Canal Road East and Canal Road West 35. Aldrich Street 36. Possession Street 37. Sycamore Street 38. Tung Choi Street and Sai Yeung Choi Street 39. Sai Yee Street 40. Public Square Street 41. Cedar Street Part Four: Signs 42. The Decline of the Legend 43. The Eye of the Typhoon 44. Chek Lap Kok Airport 45. The Metonymic Spectrum 46. The Elevation of Imagination 47. Geological Discrimination 48. North-Oriented Declination 49. The Travel of Numbers 50. The Tomb of Signs 51. The Orbit of Time Acknowledgments Author and Translators
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2011-035907
Dewey Decimal
895.1/352
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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