Fantasy Islands : Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
- Author/Creator:
- Sze, Julie, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Fantasy Islands : Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis / Julie Sze
- Related/Included Titles:
- Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
CHAPTER ONE. Fear, Loathing, Eco-Desire: Chinese Pollution in a Transnational World --
CHAPTER TWO. Changing Chongming --
CHAPTER THREE. Dreaming Green: Engineering the Eco-City --
CHAPTER FOUR. It's a Green World After All?: Marketing Nature and Nation in Suburban Shanghai --
CHAPTER FIVE. Imagining Ecological Urbanism at the World Expo --
Conclusion --
NOTES --
Acknowledgments --
Select Bibliography --
Index
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States
Sustainable development--China--Shanghai
Urban renewal--China--Shanghai
Urban ecology (Sociology)--China--Shanghai
Chongming Qu (Shanghai, China)
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Fear, Loathing, Eco-Desire: Chinese Pollution in a Transnational World -- CHAPTER TWO. Changing Chongming -- CHAPTER THREE. Dreaming Green: Engineering the Eco-City -- CHAPTER FOUR. It's a Green World After All?: Marketing Nature and Nation in Suburban Shanghai -- CHAPTER FIVE. Imagining Ecological Urbanism at the World Expo -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- Acknowledgments -- Select Bibliography -- Index
- Summary:
- The rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume. At the same time, the world appears wary of the real costs involved. Fantasy Islands probes Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and eco-technological dreams, and examines the solutions they offer to environmental degradation in this age of global economic change. Uncovering the stories of sites in China, including the plan for a new eco-city called Dongtan on the island of Chongming, mega-suburbs, and the Shanghai World Expo, Julie Sze explores the flows, fears, and fantasies of Pacific Rim politics that shaped them. She charts how climate change discussions align with US fears of China's ascendancy and the related demise of the American Century, and she considers the motives of financial and political capital for eco-city and ecological development supported by elite power structures in the UK and China. Fantasy Islands shows how ineffectual these efforts are while challenging us to see what a true eco-city would be.
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936953176102486
- ISBN:
- 0-520-28448-8
0-520-95982-5 - OCLC Number:
- 890980993
1037744106 - Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.1525/9780520959828
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