1st Edition
China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market
By Jiawen Han
Copyright 2018
196 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
35 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this phenomenon in detail. In particular, it highlights how changes in the social-political system, the... Read more
Introduction: Multiple Modernities
1. History, Ideology and Chinese Architecture
2. China, Architecture and China's Architecture
3. Conceiving the Modern Past: Liu Jiakun
4. Renarrating the State: Cui Kai
5. Casting a Civic Shadow in the City: Urbanus
6. A Delicate Balance
Biography
Jiawen Han is Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.
