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Projecting Post-colonial Conditions at Shanghai Expo 2010, China: Floppy Ears, Lofty Dreams and Macao’s Immutable Mobiles

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  • Chin-Ee Ong
  • Hilary du Cros

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Recent years have seen increased academic attention in urban studies on the flows of city artefacts and images. Conceptualised as ‘immutable mobiles’, the Macao Pavilion and its associated objects on show at Shanghai Expo 2010 are examined for the ways they encouraged and regulated uniformed flows of people and city images. Specifically, these immutable mobiles projected Macao’s lofty dreams of paradoxical affinity to and difference from mainland China—the city is a steadfast Special Administrative Region of China, but the immigration flow of Chinese citizens has been tightly regulated. This paper unpacks the ways in which urban actants articulate and perform such contradictory imaginings of the (im)mobilities of this post-colonial territory. Accordingly, it provides a basis for further study of post-colonial conditions in Macao, and adds to post-colonial research on mobilities in and of Chinese urban spaces.

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  • Chin-Ee Ong & Hilary du Cros, 2012. "Projecting Post-colonial Conditions at Shanghai Expo 2010, China: Floppy Ears, Lofty Dreams and Macao’s Immutable Mobiles," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(13), pages 2937-2953, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:49:y:2012:i:13:p:2937-2953
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098012452459
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    1. Carina Ren & Can-Seng Ooi, 2013. "Auto-communicating micro-Orientalism: articulating ‘Denmark’ in China at the Shanghai Expo," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 129-145, June.

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