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In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Fuhrmann, Arnika

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Film StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1478029544
ISBN13: 9781478029540
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the Mood for Texture considers the revival of Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of colonial modernity in contemporary Southeast Asian cultural production, both virtual and material. By analyzing how twentieth-century Shanghai and Hong Kong have been revived in modern Bangkok's architecture, design, fashion, and nightlife, Arnika Fuhrmann shows how Chinese pasts are redeployed in contemporary film, literature, and hospitality venues to shape present visions of Asia. At the heart of this inquiry stand Shanghai and Hong Kong's anomalous colonial temporalities and Thailand's semi-colonial temporality of the never and yet still of colonization. Attending to the textures of built environments and agentive female subjects, Fuhrmann reconceptualizes the revival of Bangkok's Chinese pasts and demonstrates how Southeast Asian imaginations can challenge both domestic and diasporic narratives of identity and collectivity beyond China.

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