Visser, Robin,  1962- <br/><br/>
Cities surround the countryside :  urban aesthetics in post-socialist China / 
Robin Visser. 
 - Durham [NC] :  Duke University Press,  c2010. 
 - x, 362 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Designing the postsocialist city : urban planning and its discontents -- Theorizing the postsocialist city : cultural politics of urban aesthetics -- Performing the postsocialist city : Beijing identity in art, film, and fiction -- Consuming the postsocialist city : Shanghai identity in art, film, and fiction -- The melancholic urban subject : black snow, private life, breathing, and candy -- Postsocialist urban ethics : modernity and the morality of everyday life -- Conclusion: sustainable Chinese aesthetics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780822347095 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822347286 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009047828 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cities and towns--History--China--21st century.<br/>City and town life--History--China--21st century.<br/>Ciudades y pueblos--Historia.--China
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT 147  / V834c 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.760951/0905