Main entry:

Denison, Edward, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and the landscape of modernity in China before 1949 / Edward Denison.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Description:

xvii, 340 pages ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-328) and index.
PART I China and the meaning of modernity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Intellectual 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 Curtailed modernities.

Summary:

"This book explores China's encounter with architecture and modernity in the tumultuous epoch before Communism – an encounter that was mediated not by a singular notion of modernism emanating from the west, but that was uniquely multifarious, deriving from a variety of sources both from the west and, importantly, from the east. The heterogeneous origins of modernity in China are what make its experience distinctive and its architectural encounters exceptional. These experiences are investigated through a re-evaluation of established knowledge of the subject within the wider landscape of modern art practices in China. The study draws on original archival and photographic material from different artistic genres and, architecturally, concentrates on China's engagement with the west through the treaty ports and leased territories, the emergence of architecture as a profession in China, and Japan's omnipresence, not least in Manchuria, which reached its apogee in the puppet state of Manchukuo. The study's geographically, temporally, and architecturally inclusive approach framed by the concept of multiple modernities questions the application of conventional theories of modernity or post-colonialism to the Chinese situation. By challenging conventional modernist historiography that has marginalised the experiences of the west's other for much of the last century, this book proposes different ways of grappling with and comprehending the distinction and complexity of China's experiences and its encounter with architectural modernity."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9781472431684 (hardback)
1472431685 (hardback)
(ebook)
9781315567686

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) China.
Architecture and society China History 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Chine.
Architecture et société Chine Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and society.
Modern movement (Architecture)
China.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295421
Call No.: BIB 241642
Status: Available