Original Copies : : Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China /

Original Copies : : Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China / / Bianca Bosker; ed. by Xing Ruan, Ronald G. Knapp.

A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot C...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Bosker, Bianca,
HerausgeberIn:
Knapp, Ronald G.,
Ruan, Xing,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.) :; 69 illus., 54 in color
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 INTO “THE LAND OF COURTLY ENJOYMENTS” :An Introduction to China’s Architectural Mimicry
  • 2 THE FASCINATION WITH FAUX: Philosophical and Theoretical Drivers of Architectural Reproduction in China
  • 3. MANIFESTATIONS OF WESTERNIZATION : The Anatomy of China’s Simulacrascapes
  • 4. Simulacra and the Sino-Psyche: Understanding the Chinese Motivation for Replicating the Alien
  • 5. Residential Revolution: Inside the Twenty-fi rst Century Chinese Dream
  • Conclusion: From Imitation to Innovation?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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