Architecture and the Landscape of Modernity in China before 1949
Author:   Edward Denison (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   390
Publication Date:   21 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Edward Denison (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781138342187


ISBN 10:   1138342181
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   21 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Part I: China and the Meaning of Modernity, 1. Introduction, 2. Intellectural Orientations: The Unavoidable Burden of Context, 3. China’s Multiple Modernities, 4. Chinese Art and its Multiple Modernities, Part II: Architecture and Modernity, 5. The Advent of Architecture, 6. Foreign Settlements before 1912, 7. Modernism and Nationalism, 8. Japan: China’s Mirror to Modernism, 9. Shanghai: Multiple Modernities’ Exemplar, 10. China's Multiple Modernities - A Project Curtailed

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Edward Denison is an architectural historian and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. His previous publications include: Ultra-Modernism: Architecture and Modernity in Manchuria (2017), Luke Him Sau, Architect (2014), The Life of the British Home (2012), McMorran & Whitby (2009), Modernism in China (2008), Building Shanghai (2006), and Asmara: Africa’s Secret Modernist City (2003).

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