Writing and unwriting Asian architecture
The past in the present : the immediate historicity of Asia
Trans-boundary methodologies : cultural appropriation and heteroglossia
Bracketing before framing : the grounding of colony architecture
The Tenryuubito and the resistance to it : exemplifying cultural-political enclaves
Non-native natives and insular urbanism : the matter of communitarian localities in Asia
Exhibitions without exhibits : musealising history and architecture
The entanglement or the différend?.

Dedication; Preface; A Note on Transliteration and Romanisation; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures ; 1: Introduction: Writing and Unwriting Asian Architecture; Notes; References; Part I: Theorised Asia; 2: The Past in the Present: The Immediate Historicity of Asia; The Patronised Knowledge of Asia; Problematised Historiography; Asia's Immediate Historicity; The Presence of the Asian Past; Alternatives of Reaching Architecture and History; Summary; Notes; References; 3: Trans-boundary Methodologies: Cultural Appropriation and Heteroglossia

Key 'Schools' That Lead to Transdisciplinarity Theorisations of Cultural Appropriation; From Hybridisation to Creolisation; The Nature of Heteroglossia in Contemporary Asia; Summary; Notes; References; 4: Bracketing Before Framing: The Grounding of Colony Architecture; The Inescapable Postcoloniality; Theses on Colony Architecture and the Characteristic Antinomies of the Asian Postcoloniality; The Bracketed Time-Place Phenomena; As a Meta-Theorisation of Asian Architecture; Summary; Notes; References; Part II: Asianised Theory

5: The Tenryuubito and the Resistance to It: Exemplifying Cultural-Political Enclaves Michel Foucault's Insight and the Fictional Tenryuubito; Allegories and Built Cases of Contemporary Asia's Cultural-Political Enclaves; The World Nobles and the Subaltern; Carnivalesque Resistance in Asia; Summary; Notes; References; 6: Non-native Natives and Insular Urbanism: The Matter of Communitarian Localities in Asia; Preliminary Surveys of Southeast Asian Architecture; The State of Malaysian Architecture and Beyond; A Bigger Picture of Southeast Asian Architecture; Summary; Notes; References

7: Exhibitions Without Exhibits: Musealising History and Architecture A Phenomenal Institutionalisation; Asia Pacific's Postcoloniality; Musealisation and 'Quasi-Architectural Exhibitions'; The Historicity of Asia Pacific Architecture; Summary; Notes; References; 8: Conclusion: The Entanglement or the Différend?; Note; References; Glossary; Index