This article shed the light on the cultural and societal aspects of Asian cities and their relationship with ghosts.    The author mention haunted house and haunted apartment. The difference between haunted house and haunted apartment is that haunted house is the setting or the environment of the house will create a spooky atmosphere. In the text state that “There are always too many doors and staircases leading nowhere in particular; cellars, attics, utility rooms and closets transform into hidden passages leading to secret locations” The haunted apartment represent isolation. Also it is more ordinary and less noticeable. It trigger me to think

Continue reading[Reading Response 2]: Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City

In Katarzyna Ancuta’s Asian Ghosts and the City, Ancuta incorporated a recurring motif of ghosts to signify the lack of raw communal exchanges emphasized in modern day architecture, whereby the intangible forces of political and economic means further reinforced urban isolation. This in turn, resulted in a self imposed effect where we are gradually vanishing into ghosts, too, as we ignore the blatant halt of traditional architecture which makes us subsequent reinforcers of this phenomenon – the asian apartment horror, and accordingly, we are “disappearing away” alongside the traditions that once marked the essence of communal exchanges. Upon reading this

Continue reading(Larissa Lai) Reading response 2 – Communal After-Living: Asian Ghosts and the City – Katarzyna Ancuta