Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent Through History

Honolulu Hawai'i: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo in gray boards, gilt titles to spine; dust jacket; 301 pp: Illustrations, photographs, maps; (b&w, color); 27 cm Fine in fine dust jacket; boards smooth; pages bright and crisp; binding tight; dust jacket is clean and glossy. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780824839529

Contents: Asia in world architecture and world cartography | Vimalin Rujivacharakul. Imagining Asia from the margins: early Portuguese mappings of the continent's architecture and space | Zoltán Biedermann. Mountains and streams: architecturalizing landscapes in medieval Korea | Remco E. Breuker. The entry of Yaxiya/Asia: the (re)construction of global geography in early modern China | Yuming He. Abstract spaces of Asia, Indochina, and empire in the French imaginaire | H. Hazel Hahn. The Eurasian hour: Ratzel, Mackinder, and the architecture of geopolitical identity | Peter Christensen. Java's architectural enigma: the Austronesian world and the limits of "Asia" | Imran bin Tajudeen. Colonialism and its discontents: caitya halls and the constructed origins of South Asian Buddhist architecture / David Efurd. Asia outside Asia: the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exhibition | Ken Tadashi Oshima. Construire le style indochinois: identity formation through geopolitical territory and architecture | Caroline Herbelin. Land as an architectural idea in modern Japan | Seng Kuan. Communist mosques: forgotten futures of late Soviet Central Asia | Igor Demchenko. Shifting gaze: Irano-Persian architecture from the great game to a nation-state. Talinn Grigor.