Wongsurawat, Wasana
Sites of Modernity
1. Introduction
Wasana Wongsurawat
2. Teaching Civilisation: The Role of a French Education in the Development of Modernity in Shanghai
Alexander Major
3. Scientific Institutions as Sites for Dissemination and Contestation: Emergence of Colonial Calcutta as a Science City
Deepak Kumar
4. Management of ‘Public Spaces’: Case-Study of Roads in Bangkok in the Reign of King Rama V
Nontaporn Youmangmee
5. A City-State as Migrant Nation: Singapore from the Colonial to the Asian Modern
Hong Lysa
6. Whose Home? Cultural Pluralism and Preservation of Japanese Colonial Heritage in Taipei City
Hiroko Matsuda
7. Home Base of an Exiled People: Hong Kong and Overseas Chinese Activism from Thailand
Wasana Wongsurawat
8. Bangkok: From an Antique to a Modern City
Udomporn Teeraviriyakul
9. Nationalism in Indian Architecture: A Modern Trajectory in Twentieth-Century India
Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai
10. From the Demolition of Monasteries to the Installation of Neon Lights: The Politics of Urban Construction in the Mongolian People’s Republic
Balazs Szalontai
Keywords: History, History, general, Anthropology, Sociological Theory, Migration
- Editor
- Wongsurawat, Wasana
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The Humanities in Asia
- Page amount
- 7 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783662457269
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-662-45725-2