Taipei

<p>Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize<br/><br/>This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of <i>Taipei</i> Taiwan in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps public art parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated despised destroyed or transformed as <i>Taipei</i> experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city we learn to look beyond surface ephemera moving from the general to the particular to see sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.<br/><br/>Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBdGIoox7zM</p>