Julia Lovell

Splendidly Fantastic: Architecture and Power Games in China

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Mao once called the Chinese a blank sheet of paper, and the modernising that came with the Cultural Revolution treated cities much the same. But Mao's destructive impulses were as nothing compared to the liberalised policies of his recent successors. China has undergone urbanisation on a scale never seen before - much of it speculative, some of it a brazen display of power. In this incisive analysis by the acclaimed Sinologist Julia Lovell, we get inside the politics of architecture and city-making in China. There is a colourful cast, from the Western starchitects rushing into the land of opportunity, to political dissidents such as Ai Weiwei… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Strelka Press, Julia (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-5-9903364-5-2
EAN: 9785990336452
Produktnummer: 14643468
Verlag: Strelka Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 36 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 257 KB

Über den Autor

Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature, The Great Wall: China Against the World and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China. Lovell's several translations of modern Chinese fiction include Han Shaogong's A Dictionary of Maqiao (winner of the 2011 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature); Zhu Wen's I Love Dollars; and Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q, and Other Tales of China.