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The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms
Author | : Jeffrey Johnson |
Publisher | : Actar D, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1638408297 |
A wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China’s urban future. Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ‘Megablocks’ then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics. In this bilingual Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, China Lab aims to document and advance China’s urban future. Co-published with GSAPP, Columbia University. Contributions: Amale Andraos, David Bray, Eric Chang, Yung Ho Chang, Renee Y. Chow, Edward Denison, Duanfang Lu, Joris Fach, John Fitzgerald, Steven Holl, Michiel Hulshof, Jun Jiang, Clover Lee, Zhongjie Lin, Matthew Niederhauser, Xuefei Ren, Daan Roggeveen, André Schmidt, Grahame Shane, Jian Shi, Jiaming Zhu, Jianfei Zhu
Mark Twain in China
Author | : Selina Lai-Henderson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2015-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804794758 |
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) has had an intriguing relationship with China that is not as widely known as it should be. Although he never visited the country, he played a significant role in speaking for the Chinese people both at home and abroad. After his death, his Chinese adventures did not come to an end, for his body of works continued to travel through China in translation throughout the twentieth century. Were Twain alive today, he would be elated to know that he is widely studied and admired there, and that Adventures of Huckleberry Finn alone has gone through no less than ninety different Chinese translations, traversing China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Looking at Twain in various Chinese contexts—his response to events involving the American Chinese community and to the Chinese across the Pacific, his posthumous journey through translation, and China's reception of the author and his work, Mark Twain in China points to the repercussions of Twain in a global theater. It highlights the cultural specificity of concepts such as "race," "nation," and "empire," and helps us rethink their alternative legacies in countries with dramatically different racial and cultural dynamics from the United States.
Cartooning China
Author | : Amy Matthewson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1000556085 |
This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty-year period from 1841 to 1901. Filled with political metaphors and racial stereotypes, these illustrations served as a powerful tool in both reflecting and shaping notions and attitudes towards China at a tumultuous time in Sino-British history. A close reading of both the visual and textual satires in Punch reveals how a section of British society visualised and negotiated with China as well as Britain’s position in the global community. By contextualising Punch’s cartoons within the broader frameworks of British socio-cultural and political discourse, the author engages in a critical enquiry of popular culture and its engagements with race, geopolitical propaganda, and public consciousness. With a wide array of illustrations, this book in the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series will be an important resource for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political history and Empire, Chinese studies, popular culture, Victoriana, as well as media studies. It will also be of interest to readers who want to learn more about Punch, its history, and Sino-British relations.
History in Three Keys
Author | : Paul A. Cohen |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231106511 |
Content Description #Includes bibliographical references and index.
Global Shanghai, 1850-2010
Author | : Jeffrey N Wasserstrom |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2008-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134613725 |
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015
Author | : Liping Bu |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1317541359 |
This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing political ideologies; and discusses how the drivers of health improvements were, unlike in the West, modern medical professionals and intellectuals who understood that, whatever the prevailing ideology, China needs to be a strong country. The book explores how public health concepts, policies, programmes, institutions and practices changed and developed through social and political upheavals, war, and famine, and argues that this perspective of China’s development is refreshingly different from China’s development viewed purely in political terms.
Yin Yu Tang
Author | : Nancy Berliner |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1462909418 |
This book is recommended…for the Chinese history and culture sections of both public and academic libraries.--Library Journal