Harbin to Hanoi

The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940

Laura Victoir, Victor Zatsepine

• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9789888180677
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered and unpredictable. This book uncovers the regional diversity of the colonial built form found from Harbin to Hanoi, varied experiences of the foreign powers in Asia, flexible interactions between the colonizers and the colonized, and the risks entailed in building and living in these colonies and treaty ports.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Book Synopsis
• Author Biography
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Russia, Railways, and Urban Development in Manchuria, 1896-1930
• 3 Beans to Banners: The Evolving Architecture of Prewar Changchun
• 4 France, Brossard Mopin, and Manchukuo
• 5 International Concessions and the Modernization of Tianjin
• 6 Mapping Colonial Space: The Planning and Building of Qingdao by German Colonial Authorities, 1897-1914
• 7 The Architecture of Risk: Urban Space and Uncertainty in Shanghai, 1843-74
• 8 Fabricating Justice: Conflict and Contradiction in the Making of the Hong Kong Supreme Court, 1898-1912
• 9 Making Space for Higher Education in Colonial Hong Kong, 1887-1913
• 10 Colonial Hanoi: Urban Space in Public Discourse
• 11 Hygienic Colonial Residences in Hanoi
• 12 Domesticating the Suburbs: Architectural Production and Exchanges in Hanoi during the Late French Colonial Era
• 13 Afterword
• Index
• Plates