The Dynamics of Modern Asian Design

Focusing on the late 20th century onward, this book explores how design in material form has underscored cultural, social and economic changes across Asia.

List of Figures

Introduction, Sandy Ng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) and Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)

Part I: The Nature and Experience of Materiality
1. Trash or Treasure? The East Asian Sherd as Material and Medium, Stacey Pierson (SOAS, UK)
2. Found Objects in Southern Chinese Craftsmanship and Design: Social Connections and Material Agency, Anna Grasskamp (University of Oslo, Norway)
3. Maintaining Material Culture: An Essay on Meaning and Values of Things and Technology in Downtown Seoul, Anneke Coppoolse (Hongik University, South Korea

Part II: Design, Material Culture, and Mediation
4. Health Booms and Bubbly Bodies: Hanako Magazine, Women, and Beauty in the 1980s Japanese Bubble Economy, Hui-Ying Kerr (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
5. Ornament and The Self: Feminine Design and Social Changes in the life of the Modern Woman, Sandy Ng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
6. Religious Aesthetics: Displaying and Collecting Chinese Gods, Valentina Gamberi (Palacky University, Czech Republic)

Part III: The Biography of Design
7. The Aesthetics of Concrete Watchtowers: The Hybrid and Contextual Architecture of Guangdong, Kwok-wah Tung (University of Edinburgh, UK)
8. The Home and the Street: Poverty, Development, and Heritage in Housing Design in India in the 1980s, Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)
9. The Weft of Nations: Circulating Imagery of Chinese Textile Technology on the eve of Britain's Industrial Revolution, Roslyn Lee Hammers (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

List of Contributors
Index