Learning from… China
In Urbanising Southern China: Poverty, Minorities, and Development, Gregory Guldin examines the social and environmental consequences of accelerated industrialisation in China, as agricultural villages become dense urban agglomerations at unprecedented rates. A specialist in Chinese urbanisation, ethnicity, and politics, Gregory Guldin is Professor of Anthropology at the(...)
3 May 2007
Learning from… China
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In Urbanising Southern China: Poverty, Minorities, and Development, Gregory Guldin examines the social and environmental consequences of accelerated industrialisation in China, as agricultural villages become dense urban agglomerations at unprecedented rates. A specialist in Chinese urbanisation, ethnicity, and politics, Gregory Guldin is Professor of Anthropology at the(...)
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Architectural Education in the Intermediate Zone
Oussouby Sacko on African architectural identity and his studies in China, interviewed by Cole Roskam
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A Story of Encounters
Forces of Friction
PH1980:0939
architecture
1871
architecture
PH1980:0942
architecture
1871
architecture
PH1980:0941
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- This photograph was taken from the bottom of Longevity Hill.
architecture, sculpture
1871
View of the Temple of the Sea of Wisdom [Zhihui Hai] and the Revolving Archive [Zhuanlun Cang], with a statue of a lion in the left foreground, Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1980:0941
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- This photograph was taken from the bottom of Longevity Hill.
architecture, sculpture
PH1986:0347:001-002
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- This panorama was taken from the base of the White Pagoda [Bai Ta] (now also known as the White Dagoba), Western Garden [Xi Yuan] (now Beihai Park), Peking (now Beijing), China (Harris, p. 147). In PH1986:0347:001, Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) is visible at upper left, the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex is visible from centre left to centre right, and Shengwumen [Gate of Divine Might], the northern gate to the Forbidden City, is visible at extreme centre right. In PH1986:0347:002, the Forbidden City is visible from centre left to centre right and the west wall and a building at the southwest corner of the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex are visible at centre left.
architecture, landscape architecture
after 24 October 1860 and before 16 November 1860
Panorama of Jingshan (also known as Coal Hill or Prospect Hill), the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex, and the Forbidden City (also known as Zijincheng and the Imperial Palace; now the Palace Museum), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0347:001-002
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- This panorama was taken from the base of the White Pagoda [Bai Ta] (now also known as the White Dagoba), Western Garden [Xi Yuan] (now Beihai Park), Peking (now Beijing), China (Harris, p. 147). In PH1986:0347:001, Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) is visible at upper left, the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex is visible from centre left to centre right, and Shengwumen [Gate of Divine Might], the northern gate to the Forbidden City, is visible at extreme centre right. In PH1986:0347:002, the Forbidden City is visible from centre left to centre right and the west wall and a building at the southwest corner of the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex are visible at centre left.
architecture, landscape architecture
PH1986:0385
architecture
1984
Partial view of the Jingxin Studio [Studio of Tranquil Heart], Beihai [North Lake] Park, Beijing, China
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PH1986:0385
architecture
PH1986:0384
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- This partial view of the 'Strolling Through a Picture-Scroll' [Hua Chung Yu] building complex shows part of the main pavilion (itself called 'Strolling Through a Picture-Scroll' [Hua Chung Yu]) from centre to left and part of the smaller, east pavilion ('Mountain Loving' [Ai Shan]) from centre to right.
architecture
1984
Partial view of the 'Strolling Through a Picture-Scroll' [Hua Chung Yu] building complex, Yihe Yuan (also known as the Summer Palace and formerly the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan]), Beijing, China
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PH1986:0384
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- This partial view of the 'Strolling Through a Picture-Scroll' [Hua Chung Yu] building complex shows part of the main pavilion (itself called 'Strolling Through a Picture-Scroll' [Hua Chung Yu]) from centre to left and part of the smaller, east pavilion ('Mountain Loving' [Ai Shan]) from centre to right.
architecture
PH1986:0373
architecture
between 1860 and 1861, or 1870
architecture