ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the participation of Taiwanese professionals in the process of China's production of the built environment reflects dynamic economic and social transformation of post-Mao China. Adopting a political economy approach, the chapter focuses on the process, institutions, and actors that enable Taiwanese architects to engage in China's production of the built environment within the cross-strait political context. It discusses the transformation of China's Built-Environment-Related (BER) industry and reviews the general phenomenon of overseas architects in post-Mao urban China. When China first established regulations on overseas architects, J. X. Shi had cooperated with the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Design and then established his Liaoning Institute of Modern Design, which was first licensed joint-venture design institute in China. In addition, some Taiwanese architects, including C. C. Hsu, Y. D. Chen, and X Zhu, obtained a very rare permit for joint engineering consultancy, granted by the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of External Economic Affairs and Trade.
