Overview
Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture. Focussing on the concept of a heteroglossic Asia Pacific, exemplified by the analysis of Taiwan's urban transformation, the study argues that Taiwan's urban environment shows a form of intended "fuzziness" which cannot be described as resting on either a simplified nationalist base or chaotic societal anxiety. Rather, this form lies between binary poles: autocracy and democracy, nation state and day-to-day life, top-down and bottom-up orientations, orthodoxy and hybridisation.
- | Author: Francis Chia-Hui Lin
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Aug 04, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 170 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Architecture
- | ISBN-10: 113821700X
- | ISBN-13: 9781138217003
