{"id":5383,"date":"2012-09-07T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/09\/dung-kai-cheungs-atlas\/"},"modified":"2017-10-22T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T16:00:05","slug":"dung-kai-cheungs-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2012\/09\/dung-kai-cheungs-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A book has been brought to my attention that sounds relevant to my interests: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City<\/a><\/em> by Dung Kai-cheung, an English translation of which is now out from Columbia University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a>From the publisher’s blurb: “Much like the quasi-fictional adventures in map-reading and remapping explored by Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, Dung Kai-cheung’s novel challenges the representation of place and history and the limits of technical and scientific media in reconstructing a history. It best exemplifies the author’s versatility and experimentation, along with China’s rapidly evolving literary culture, by blending fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a story about succeeding and failing to recapture the things we lose. Playing with a variety of styles and subjects, Dung Kai-cheung inventively engages with the fate of Hong Kong since its British ‘handover’ in 1997, which officially marked the end of colonial rule and the beginning of an uncharted future.”<\/p>\n

I will get back to you on this one once I’ve bought it and read it. In the meantime, here is an interview<\/a> with the author. Here is a review<\/a> in The Japan Times<\/em>. Via Jeff VanderMeer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buy at Amazon<\/a> | publisher’s page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A book has been brought to my attention that sounds relevant to my interests: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Dung Kai-cheung, an English translation of which is now out from Columbia University… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788016,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/the-atlas-of-boston-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":5383,"position":0},"title":"The Atlas of Boston History","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"31 October 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The Atlas of Boston History, edited by Boston historian Nancy S. 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