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
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
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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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