In the Mood for Texture
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A01=Arnika Fuhrmann
Author_Arnika Fuhrmann
Bad Genius 2017
Bang Rak district
Bangkok
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Cheung sam
Chinese architecture
Chinese Southeast Asia
colonial architecture
colonial modernity
colonial ruin
contemporary Chinese femininity
distressed feminism
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female optimization
femininity
film
Happy Old Year film
Hong Kong
In the Mood for Love film
infrastructural change
Inter-Asia migration
knowledge industry
Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat
neoliberal city
notions of belonging
Pom Prap district
prosthetic memory
regional rescaling
Samphanthawong district
semicoloniality
Shanghai
Sinotropic literature
Statist history
Thai modernity
Thailand
urban femininity
urban revival
urban transformation
vernacular architecture
Wong Kar-wai
Product details
- ISBN 9781478032991
- Weight: 358g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the Mood for Texture considers the revival of Chinese pasts and the aesthetics of 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 Chinese pasts are 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 Bangkok’s Chinese pasts 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.
