TY - BOOK AU - Visser,Robin TI - Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in post-socialist China SN - 9780822347095 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HT 147 V834c 2010 U1 - 307.760951/0905 PY - 2010/// CY - Durham [NC] PB - Duke University Press KW - Cities and towns KW - China KW - History KW - 21st century KW - City and town life KW - Ciudades y pueblos KW - Historia N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -