TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhu, Jianfei
TI  - Architecture of modern China : a historical critique
SN  - 0415457815
U1  - 720.951 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London & New York
PB  - Routledge
N1  - CONTENTS Credits for texts  ix Illustration credits  xi Acknowledgements  xv Introduction 1 MODERN CHINESE ARCHITECTURE A social, historical and formal analysis Form 2 PERSPECTIVE AS SYMBOLIC FORM Beijing, 1729-35  11 For the Nation 3 THE ARCHITECT AND A NATIONALIST PROJECT Nanjing, 1925-37  41 4  A SPATIAL REVOLUTION Beijing, 1949-59  75 Transition 5 THE 1980s AND 1990s Liberalization  105 Criticalities 6 CRITICALITY IN BETWEEN CHINA AND THE WEST, 1996-2004  129 Comments from G. Baird, Y H. Chang, P. Eisenman, L Liu, M. Speaks and other Architects/Critics; A Conversation  146 7 A GLOBAL SITE AND A DIFFERENT CRITICALITY  169 In the World 8 BEIJING, 2008 A history 199 Formlessness 9 GEOMETRIES OF LIFE AND FORMLESSNESS A Chinese urban tradition In Hindsight 215 10 TWENTY PLATEAUS, 1910s-2010s 231 Notes 245 Glossary of Chinese expressions 271 Bibliography 273 Index 291
ER  -