Chinese Modern: Episodes Backward and Forward in Time

Peter G. Rowe

Published by Birkhäuser 2022

Chinese Modern

Episodes Backward and Forward in Time

Peter G. Rowe

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035626339

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Chinese modernity – a defining overview

Rowe’s third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of nation-building. Episodes and periods interrogated in the book range from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 to the proclamation of Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’ 100 years later. Episodes will be foregrounded by commentary about the general states of the nation and particularly by urban planning undertakings. Providing a wide-ranging survey of Chinese modern architecture that has a historic aspect to it, the book introduces the reader to a plethora of originative and influential buildings, momentous urban schemes as well as the architects and planners behind them.

Third volume of the history of Modern architecture in the Far East
Important contribution to the debate on the relationship between architecture and nation-building
Written by a team with unique expertise in Chinese architecture and urbanism

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Peter G. Rowe, professor; Liang Wang, architect and educator; Zhanliang Chen, doctoral student, Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Chapter 1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Chapter 2 Foreign Influence and the Early Chinese Generations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter 3 Socialist Content, Cultural Form and Its Radicalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter 4 Reform, Agency and Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Chapter 5 New Normal and the China Dream Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architects, urban planners, historians of architecture, China experts
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 220
Keywords: Modern architecture; China; urbanism; nation-building

eBook

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783035626339

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783035626308