Browsing Book chapters by Subject "orientalism"

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«De la vertu au vice: l’espace des loisirs à Macao (1910–1930)»

Forêt, Philippe (Chronos Verlag, 2005)

Je propose un jeu sur l'espace des loisirs, sur la célébration et le dénigrement d'une baie et d'une rue, sur le mariage et le divorce d'une ville et de son littoral, et sur les pratiques iconographiques de répétition et ...
Globalizing Macau. The Emotional Costs of Modernity (1910-1930)

Forêt, Philippe (Routledge, 2006)

This chapter deals with the ambiguity that political authorities feel toward culture and history when they are pressed to enlarge and modernize urban infrastructures. I will discuss the strategy followed by the Harbour ...
Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture

Forêt, Philippe (Chronos Verlag, 2003)

This empirical study on advertising campaigns and the art of running trains in distant places finds its theoretical significance in a view of history where real and imagined geographies interact. The railroad companies of ...