Disadvantaged housing areas from the postwar period typically consist of relatively monotonous and monofunctional multi-storey blocks and have a separate traffic system rendering the areas isolated enclaves in the urb...
This essay seeks to historicize Lettrist activity in France and to situate Lettrist aesthetic productions and destructions in relation to the memory of German Occupation of France during World War II,and to the violen...
Concern regarding linguistic nationalism and the need for a modem universal language preoccupied many European writers,artists and philosophers throughout the interand postwar years.This article looks at a peculiar ov...
In 1946,after a two-year imprisonment in Rhode Island,Alfred Andersch and Werner Richter(Group 47’s future founders)came back to Germany as selected German citizens as a result of their cooperation with the American ...
In the period between the idealistic vision of the 'Reshaping society' and Thatcherism, in the so-called 'Swinging London’,the second wave of modernism is facing the demands and the quantities of bombed cities. Th...
The Last Lawn of the Afternoon is one of Haruki Murakami’s most important early short stories.In this paper,I avoid conventional arguments,focusing my analysis on the encounter between the middle-aged woman and Boku,...
Starting with the debate on Taiwan Residents national consciousness between Chen Yingzhen and Japanese scholar Shozo Fujii, and Chen's supporter Masayoshi Matsunaga around 2004, the paper examines the historiography ...
During the seven decades since the war ended, Japan has undergone "changes of direction" involving group expressions of regret, accompanied by the intellectual "soul- searching" of quite a few academics. Ultimatel...
A striking feature of the structural change literature is that, even though the U.S. economy is often used as a benchmark for calibration, the traditional mo- dels cannot account for the steep decline in manufacturing...
Accommodating high-density economic activities,the cellular urban structure of Hong Kong has a certain origin in the New Town Movement of post-war Europe.In the post-war era,the planning practice of Hong Kong,as a res...