In the Mood for Texture

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.

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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 Kongs, Bangkoks, and Shanghais 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