Harbin to Hanoi: The Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940

Laura Victoir · Victor Zatsepine

ene 2013 · Global Connections Libro 3 · Hong Kong University Press

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Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history provide a detailed analysis of how colonization worked on different levels, and how it was expressed in stone, iron, and concrete. The process of creating the colonial built environment was multilayered and unpredictable. This book uncovers the regional diversity of the colonial built form found from Harbin to Hanoi, varied experiences of the foreign powers in Asia, flexible interactions between the colonizers and the colonized, and the risks entailed in building and living in these colonies and treaty ports.

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Laura Victoir is a former postdoctoral fellow in European studies at the University of Hong Kong. She currently teaches in the History Department at Hunter College, City University of New York, specializing in imperial Russia and French colonialism in Indochine.

Victor Zatsepine is a research assistant professor of history at the University of Hong Kong, specializing in frontier history and the history of imperial Russia's presence in Qing China.