In the Mood for Texture

The Revival of Bangkok As a Chinese City

Arnika Fuhrmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2954-0 (ISBN)

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In the Mood for Texture considers the aesthetics of Chinese colonial modernity in contemporary Southeast Asian cultural production, both virtual and material. By analyzing how twentieth-century Shanghai and Hong Kong have been revived in modern Bangkok’s architecture, design, fashion, and nightlife, Arnika Fuhrmann shows how the colonial past is redeployed in contemporary film, literature, and hospitality venues to shape present visions of Asia. At the heart of this inquiry stand Shanghai and Hong Kong’s anomalous colonial temporalities and Thailand’s semi-colonial temporality of the “never” and “yet still” of colonization. Attending to the textures of built environments and agentive female subjects, Fuhrmann reconceptualizes the revival of a Chinese colonial aesthetic and demonstrates how Southeast Asian imaginations can challenge both domestic and diasporic narratives of identity and collectivity beyond China.

Arnika Fuhrmann is Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong as well as Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema, which was published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City 1
I. In the Mood for Texture
1. City Connectivities
2. In the Mood for Texture: Transmedia Revivals of Hong Kong’s, Bangkok’s, and Shanghai’s Chinese Pasts and Colonial Modernities
II. Bangkok: Originary Chinese City
3. Bangkok: Chinese City of Colonial Modernity
4. How to Dump: Radical Revitalization in Thai Cinema and Hospitality Venues
III. Thinking Region from Southeast Asia
5. Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat: Thai Literature as Contemporary Chinese Literature
6. Southeast Asia as Question: Thinking Region from Bangkok
Coda. Women in Asia and the World
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	58 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-2954-4 / 1478029544
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2954-0 / 9781478029540
Zustand	Neuware