Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture: Ruinous Garden

This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden.”

Framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience of ethnic/national culture, the book presents succinct analyses of visual works, as well as cultural criticisms, centered on space in metropolitan Japan and Hong Kong, China. These analyses are placed in dialog with approaches from postcoloni...