ABSTRACT
This handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present.
This volume combines a broad-spectrum approach with a thematic framework for investigating Chinese architecture, integrating previously fragmented topics and combining the scholarship of all major periods of Chinese history. By organizing its approach into five parts, this handbook:
- Traces the practices and traditions of ancient China from imperial authority to folk culture
- Unveils a rich picture of early modern and republican China, revealing that modernization was already beginning to emerge
- Describes the social, intellectual, ideological, and formal enterprises of socialist architecture
- Frames a window on a complex and changing contemporary China by focusing on autonomy, state practices, and geopolitics of design, ultimately identifying its still evolving position on the world stage
- Examines the existing cultural and political theories to highlight potential avenues for future transformations in Chinese architecture that also retain Chinese identity
Providing a pioneering combination of ancient and modern Chinese architecture in one coherent study, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese architecture, architectural history and theory, and the architecture of Asia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |20 pages
Introduction
part I|210 pages
Ancient and Dynastic Tradition
part |78 pages
State Governance Over Building and City Planning
part |74 pages
Literati Culture and Social Production
part |56 pages
Folk Culture and Vernacular Practice
part II|99 pages
Republican and Early Modern Transformation
part |29 pages
The Arrival of “Architecture”: Profession, Knowledge, and Education
part |37 pages
Modern Building Practice: Style and Technology
part |29 pages
Modern City Construction and Spatial Formation
chapter 18|14 pages
From Hankou Town to Greater Wuhan
part III|155 pages
Socialist–Maoist Modernization
part |34 pages
Spatial Construction and City Planning Under Socialist Ideology
part |53 pages
Practice, Education, and Knowledge Production
part |65 pages
Architecture in Socialist China: Nationalism and Modernism
chapter 29|16 pages
Building Canton Fair
part IV|150 pages
Contemporary Histories
part |46 pages
Architects and the Issue of Autonomy
part |31 pages
State Design Institutes in the Reform Era
part |30 pages
CBDs: Global Spectacles
part |12 pages
Urban-Rural Reintegration
part |28 pages
Geopolitical Differentiations
part V|99 pages
Theorization
part |62 pages
Culture and Epistemology
part |22 pages
Political Ethics
part |13 pages
Methodology