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Architecturalized Asia explores built environments and visual narratives in Asia via cartography, icons, and symbols in different historical settings. It grows out of a three-year project focusing on cultural exchange in the making of Asia’s boundaries as well as its architectural styles and achievements. The book consists of three sections. In Mapping Asia: Architectural Symbols from Medieval to Early Modern Periods, authors examine icons and symbols in maps and textual descriptions and other early evidence about Asian architecture. The second section, Conjugating Asia: The Long-Nineteenth Century and Its Impetus, explores the construction of the field of Asian architecture and the political imagination of Asian built environments in the nineteenth century. The third section, Manifesting Asia: Building the Continent with Architecture, addresses the physical realization of “Asian” geographic ideas within a set of specific local and regional contexts in the twentieth century. Regions and conditions covered in Architecturalized Asia include French Indochina, Iran, post-Soviet Central Asia, Japanese landscape, and the construction of the Afro-Asian built environment.

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This is an ambitious historiographical intervention into architectural/art historical accounts of Asia. In contrast to studies that take the continent's boundaries as cartographically or ontologically given, this volume emphasizes how Asia has been constructed and produced since the early modem period. The editors argue that the idea of Asia, and its difference from a Eurasian landmass, was initiated by Europeans rather than being indigenous to the continent. . . . A valuable resource for specialists in art history, architectural history, anthropology, history, geography, religion, cultural studies, and Asian studies.-- CHOICE

This is an ambitious historiographical intervention into architectural/art historical accounts of Asia. In contrast to studies that take the continent's boundaries as cartographically or ontologically given, this volume emphasizes how Asia has been constructed and produced since the early modem period. The editors argue that the idea of Asia, and its difference from a Eurasian landmass, was initiated by Europeans rather than being indigenous to the continent. . . . A valuable resource for specialists in art history, architectural history, anthropology, history, geography, religion, cultural studies, and Asian studies. -- CHOICE

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Vimalin Rujivacharakul is associate professor of art and architectural history at the University of Delaware, USA. H. Hazel Hahn is associate professor of history at Seattle University, USA. Ken Tadashi Oshima is associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington, USA. Peter Christensen is research associate at Technische Universita?t Mu?nchen (TU Munich), Germany.

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