Introduction: Asian Cities: Colonial to Global

Bracken, Gregory

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“…At the same time, these occupation zones along the Chinese coastlines inevitably helped accelerate and shape a significant foundation for China's modernization by stimulating the growth of industries that facilitated trade distribution throughout the economy (Bracken, 2018;Wolfgang et al, 2013) and expanded the application and appreciation of the arts in everyday life (Hartnett et al, 2017). For example, the Pearl River Delta in Guangzhou became the site of cultural hubs and centers for producing and exporting fine china, paintings, and lacquerware to satisfy European's popular demand for exotic objects from the East ( 陳瑞林 , 2017).…”

Section: Looking West: the Era Of Political Turbulence In The Latementioning

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Arts & Culture: Content, Context, and Pedagogy

2022

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In her village Zhang Yi Gui was known for embroidering traditional baby shoes. Embroidered flowers for girls and embroidered tigers for boys. Based on my experience in the United States (US) I did not expect to find such a large teaching collection of folk art associated with an art and design school. Over the course of my work in China I discovered other art and design schools, such as the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, with similar teaching collections.Listening to Zhang Yi Gui's story I could not help but be cognizant that over the course of Zhang Yi Gui's life she witnessed multiple cultural, social, and political changes in China. Born not long after the abdication of the last Qing emperor, she saw the rise of the Communist party, the Japanese occupation of China from 1931 to 1945, a civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution, and the global recognition of China's growing economic and cultural influence.From 2007 through 2019 I co-directed, with Kristin Congdon, a project associated with the documentation and interpretation of China's cultural heritage. This project, titled ChinaVine, had as its mission to educate English-speaking/reading children, youth, and adults about China's cultural heritage. This project, first initiated in partnership with Shandong University of Art and Design's Folk Art Research Institute, was based on a collaborative methodology, including extensive fieldwork, in which scholars in Art Education and Folklore from China and the US cocreated content for the project's website. It was within the context of this project that I met Zhang Yi Gui. The project would expand significantly over the next twelve years to include additional Chinese and US scholars engaged in collaborative field work in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou; in rural Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan provinces; and the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province. The scholars associated with the project were careful to include examples from among China's fifty-six ethnic groups. While initially focused on the traditional arts such as embroidered shoes, papercuts, dough toys, puppets, kites, jewelry, clothing, paintings, and New Year woodblock prints, the project expanded to include contemporary art informed by tradition. In this regard extensive field work was conducted in the former farmers' village of Songzhuang, located east of Beijing, that was rapidly transforming into a contemporary artists village.

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Section: Looking West: the Era Of Political Turbulence In The Latementioning

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Arts & Culture: Content, Context, and Pedagogy

2022

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“…Seoul's transformation, then, would not only bring about a positive architectural and ecological metamorphosis, so as to break away from efficiency-based and modernist design and urban planning, but would also realise a rebranding of the city, attracting tourists and international investors to its (restored) cultural and historical highlights (Lee and Anderson, 2013;Bracken, 2015). According to urban planner and architectural historian Cho Myung-Rae (2010), this rediscovery of tradition was a new phenomenon in post-war South Korea, as the term "restoration" was precedently untapped within the field of urban planning.…”

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Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography

Hölsgens¹

2021

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As skaters increasingly engage with and respond to socio-political surges across the globe, skateboarding begins to refract into a multiplicity of situated practices. This includes a new wave of collectives and communities who re-imagine what cities could sound, feel, and be like. Combining filmmaking with ethnographic writing, Sander Hölsgens traces the lived experience of a small group of skaters in South Korea. As a skater among skaters, he unravels the site-specific nuances and relational meanings of skateboarding in Seoul – working towards an intimate portrait of a growing community.

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“…For the socioeconomic components, we relied upon urban population change from 2000 to 2010, to capture the growth of demand in residential land use, while we used urban population density in 2000 to measure the availability of urban land for each county (Li et al, 2015). In the process of urbanisation in Southeast Asia, scholars have found that urban primacy has become a significant characteristic because the most productive economic activities and the bulk of urban population are mainly concentrated in the capital areas (Bracken, 2015). For instance, the population living in the Bangkok metropolitan area accounted for about 54% of Thailand's total population in the year 2000.…”

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“…Urban scholars with specific interest in the mainland of Southeast Asia have found that colonisation and its relation to the primate cities are major institutional and historical determinants of urban development (Bracken, 2015; Reid, 1980). As typical colonial cities, most current and former capital areas in Southeast Asia began their urbanisation by the invasion of European firms and Chinese quarters in the early 20th century, which also is the initial stage for urban primacy (Reed, 1972).…”

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Modelling urban expansion in the transitional Greater Mekong Region

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Korinek

2017

Urban Studies

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Urban expansion in emerging urban areas has drawn plenty of attention. The Greater Mekong Region (GMR) has experienced dramatic urbanisation and urban land expansion in recent decades. Based on built-up area data from the World Bank compiled over the 2000–2010 period, this paper integrates geographical, socioeconomic and physical factors to explore the underlying patterns and dynamics of urban land expansion in the GMR. An explicit and critical emphasis is placed on institutional conditions. The growth of built-up areas in the GMR has concentrated heavily in the capital cities and coastal areas. Additionally, the transitional countries have shown more dramatic expansion. The results of multi-level models suggest that urban developments in the GMR are not only sensitive to local contexts, such as distance to coastlines, accessibility factors and population growth rates, but are also closely associated with country-level factors, such as country political systems, and patterns of economic growth and foreign investment. We also find that the demographic measures of urbanisation have more influence in Thailand, while measures of economic growth have more marked impacts in the transitional countries.

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Introduction: Asian Cities: Colonial to Global

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Arts & Culture: Content, Context, and Pedagogy

Arts & Culture: Content, Context, and Pedagogy

Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography

Modelling urban expansion in the transitional Greater Mekong Region

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