China Books

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This album contains 58 completed buildings and architectural designs by 17 international architectural firms, all of whom are actively involved in Chinese projects since 1980. This colourful volume visually displays architectural solutions via floor plans, drawings, photographs and other means of architectural presentation. It?s a handy reference for architects, city planners, interior designers, developers and anyone involved in the creation of the physical environment. It will also provide useful clues for historians and theorists researching Chinese architectural development. (For this item please quote stock ID 14171) ISBN: 9787800587771

A number of libraries are examined in this album with detailed information and magnificent photographs. (For this item please quote stock ID 14247) ISBN: 9787543921153

There are thousands of stations along China?s railway networks. This album, with over 600 pictures, covers all the special-class, first-class and second-class stations, some of the third class and fourth-class stations, and stations in Hongkong and Taiwan, totalling 542 stations. It is the most comprehensive album of China?s railway stations published to date. The tourist attractions, local products, railway hotels, travel agencies and other means of transportation related to each railway station are also covered. (For this item please quote stock ID 21439) ISBN: 9787806128671

[Indent] Yuanjing Company, specialising in architectural rendering and design, was established in an age when few took architectural painting as a profession. This history of the company reveals the hardships and resulting fruits of its labour. Contents: Conceptual Presentation; Learning from Photograph; Simple Narration; Subjective Interpretation; Return to the Tradition; Age of Hand-Paintings (For this item please quote stock ID 21442) ISBN: 9787507412987

In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of 12 million that will probably reach 36 million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic Zones - 'laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism' - has hastened an unprecedented experiment in urbanisation on an astonishingly large scale. Great Leap Forward contains essays that explore, in a theoretical and statistical context, the results of this rapid modernisation, which has produced an entirely new urban substance. 'This series re-introduces a non-judgmental interest in urbanism - long ignored by schools of architecture and long needing the revisit. Buy them. You'll want to have first editions, after all' - Building Design (For this item please quote stock ID 21758) ISBN: 9783822860489

More than 100 libraries in 35 countries are examined in this album with detailed information and magnificent photographs. (For this item please quote stock ID 21919) ISBN: 9787543914858

From the opulence of Imperial China and rich drama of Chinoiserie to the pared-down classicism of the Ming dynasty, China is a wellspring of style inspiring a great deal of modern architecture and design. China Modern showcases thirty-nine innovative homes, bars, and restaurants which exemplify the trends springing from this ancient and varied culture. From Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, each feature shows cutting edge, modern designs by trendsetting Chinese and China-based architects and designers who blend international perspective with traditional influences. Brand new bamboo villas next to the Great Wall of China illustrate the use of minimalist interiors. An opulently decorated restaurant in Hong Kong and renovated Siheyuans are a delight to any reader interested in global architecture and design. Sharon Leece is the former Editor-in-Chief of ELLE Decoration Hong Kong and the author of China Style. She regularly contributes interiors and lifestyle features for a variety of magazines and writes a weekly design column for the South China Morning Post. She lives in Hong Kong. A. Chester Ong specialises in cultural documentary, architecture, and food photography, and has contributed to a number of publications in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Australia, and New Zealand. He lives in Hong Kong. (For this item please quote stock ID 22958) ISBN: 9780794600983

One can kill the thing one loves by loving it too much. Drawn by its Shangri-La cachet, growing tides of tourists descend each day on Lijiang, in the farthest reaches of China?s Yunnan Province. But Lijiang, situated near the borders of Tibet, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, has stood the test of time. Nothing much has changed here since Kublai Khan arrived in 1253. Which is why UNESCO has conferred World Heritage status on this uniquely historical town without walls. (For this item please quote stock ID 23793) ISBN: 9789627283911

The spectacular transformation of China in the last decade is symbolised by its architecture. The booming cities of China are evolving at a speed which is hard to comprehend, and their skylines have seen a profusion of new architectural styles. An economic metamorphosis and an invasion of Western culture have created a dynamic environment for architecture and construction, both at the public and the domestic scale. This push to prosperity has excited architects from around the globe, who have seen a unique opportunity to produce remarkable and innovative designs. New China Architecture seizes this moment in time. It documents both the stunning designs of famed architects and the emergence of a whole new generation of Chinese architects. The selected projects cover a broad range of residential homes, public buildings, office towers and the adaptive reuse of older city precincts. The buildings featured include skyscrapers in Shanghai, the dazzling new designs for the Beijing Olympic Games venues, innovative private houses such as those at the Commune by the Great Wall and the now mandatory gleaming new airports and city landmarks.. Xing Ruan is a professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales and was previously Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney. He was born in China and graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Southeast University in Nanjing. He has practiced and taught in China, New Zealand and Australia and has been published widely on architecture, anthropology, architectural education and on contemporary Chinese architecture. Patrick Bingham-Hall is an architectural photographer and the Editor of Pesaro Publishing. His recent books include Architecture Bali, New Directions in Australian Architecture, Sydney Architecture, Singapore Architecture, Troppo Architects, The Stadium, Houses for the 21st Centuryand New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture. (For this item please quote stock ID 26153) ISBN: 9780794603892

A traditional Chinese temple mingles with a minimalist Shigeru Ban villa (a Shanghai hotel that holds the world record for the tallest hotel) and a luxurious Beijing club in this compact tour of China?s most exceptional interiors. Proposing a refreshing blend of antiquity and modernity, these images exude feelings of simplicity, Zen, and wellbeing. Editor Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel. Swiss photographer Reto Guntli regularly travels the world taking photographs for international magazines. (For this item please quote stock ID 26908) ISBN: 9783822849668

Contains over 100 outstanding completed buildings and architectural designs by more than 20 young Chinese architects. It is a selection from a wide array of designs that represent the work of these young architects as they meet the challenges of a period of rapid growth in China. Chinese Architecture Since 1980 displays these architectural solutions with floor plans, drawing, colour photographs and other methods of architectural presentation. Architects, urban designers, interior designers, developers and anyone involved in the creation of the physical environment, will find this book an invaluable addition to their professional library. (For this item please quote stock ID 9929) ISBN: 9787500058380

English & traditional Chinese character text. (For this item please quote stock ID 25235) ISBN: 9789627723158

'A richly documented proposal that future cities make increasing use of the earth as a shelter' - Choice. Based on extensive field work and a wide range of published materials, this fascinating book is the first comprehensive study of [below-ground habitats (yaodong) that today house some forty million Chinese], introducing the reader not only to a unique class of dwelling but also to the culture of its inhabitants. Its clearly written text and excellent illustrations present a wealth of material on an important type of vernacular housing and respond to the increasing international interest in the development of modern, sophisticated methods for creating earth-sheltered space usage. (For this item please quote stock ID 20261) ISBN: 9780824813697

Featuring stunning interiors from New York to Shanghai and Singapore, many of which have never been photographed before, China Style showcases modern interpretations of Chinese art, architecture and design. The Author: Sharon Leece, a writer based in Hong Kong, was editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration (Hong Kong). She currently writes interiors and design features for a variety of magazines, as well as a weekly design column for the South China Morning Post. (For this item please quote stock ID 17177) ISBN: 9780794604004

Once a fishing town nestled on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta on the east cost of China, Shanghai is now the country?s largest city and one of the world?s busiest ports. The city has been the cultural and economic centre of eastern Asia for over a century and has become synonymous with all that is modern in China. This book adventures through Shanghai, giving readers a cross-section of the city?s loveliest and most exceptional interiors, such as a penthouse loft in a converted hardware factory with a rooftop greenhouse, controversial writer/superstar Mian Mian?s conceptual art apartment, the painstakingly restored dream house of a French archaeologist in the French Concession, and the sprawling, flamboyant apartment of art world diva Pearl Lam. (For this item please quote stock ID 29881) ISBN: 9783836504812

Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on the traditional culture. In the 1920s, they traveled together to the Beaux Arts universe of Philadelphia, where they both graduated with honors from the architecture department of the University of Pennsylvania. Married in 1928, they returned to their native land and became the first two professors at the newly founded school of architecture in Shenyang's Tung Pei University.
Wilma Fairbank and her husband, John King Fairbank, Harvard University's eminent historian of modern China, were lifelong friends of Liang and Lin. This relationship allows the author, herself a noted researcher of art and architecture, to paint a vivid picture of the couple within the context of China's turbulent past. Fairbank recounts how Liang and Lin used their Western training to initiate the study of China's architectural evolution. She also documents?as seen through the eyes of Liang and Lin?the tragic events that ravaged the Chinese homeland and its people: the 1937 invasion and bombings by the Japanese military and the ensuing illness and poverty; World War II and the civil war; the rise to power of the Communist government in 1949; and the victimization of the scholar class during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.
Fairbank provides a highly readable, emotionally charged personal account of the couple's lives, and the numerous and sometimes horrific torments and humiliations they suffered. And, finally, when it was all too late, the posthumous praise and recognition.
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'An exciting book that shows the promise of future scholarship' - China Review International 'A benchmark work, bringing together research by a number of key contributors to this new scholarly literature, and offering a broadly informed collective assessment of the late-Qing and Republican elite project fundamentally to remake cities. It is a volume which no student of Chinese history should miss.' - Journal of Asian Studies '[A] beautifully designed and well-edited volume.' - American Historical Review 'Readers with any interest in twentieth century China or comparative work on nationalism, urban studies, and modernity will find this book intensely rewarding.' - H-Net Reviews 'Urban geographers interested in China and other developing nations, especially the newly independent postcolonial countries, may benefit from the volume, which links China's quest for modernity to urban development.' - Urban Geography 21 In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theatres featuring Peking Opera. The disparity evidenced in the contemporary Chinese cityscape can be traced to the early decades of the twentieth century, when government elites sought to transform cities into a new world that would be at once modern and distinctly Chinese. Remaking the Chinese City aims to capture the full diversity of recent Chinese urbanism by examining the modernist transformations of China's cities in the first half of the twentieth century. Collecting in one place some of the most interesting and exciting new work on Chinese urban history, this volume presents thirteen essays discussing ten Chinese cities: the commercial and industrial centre of Shanghai; the old capital, Beijing; the southern coastal city of Canton; the interior's Chengdu; the tourist city of Hangzhou; the utopian 'New Capital' built in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation; the treaty port of Tianjin; the Nationalists' capital in Nanjing; and temporary wartime capitals of Wuhan and Chongqing. Unlike past treatments of early twentieth-century China, which characterise the period as one of failure and decay, the contributors to this volume describe an exciting world in constant and fundamental change. During this time, the Chinese city was remade to accommodate parks and police, paved roads and public spaces. Rickshaws, trolleys, and buses allowed the growth of new downtowns. Department stores, theaters, newspapers, and modern advertising nourished a new urban identity. Sanitary regulations and traffic laws were enforced, and modern media and transport permitted unprecedented freedoms. Yet despite their fondness for things Western and modern, early urban planners envisioned cities that would lead the Chinese nation and preserve Chinese tradition. The very desire for modernity led to the construction of a visible and accessible national past and the imagining of a distinctive national future. In their investigation of the national capitals of the period, the essays show how cities were reshaped to represent and serve the nation. To promote tourism, traditions were invented and recycled for the pleasure and edification of new middle-class and foreign consumers of culture. Abundantly illustrated with maps and photographs, Remaking the Chinese City presents the best and most current scholarship on modern Chinese cities. Its thoroughness and detailed scholarship will appeal to the specialist, while its clarity and scope will engage the general reader. Contributors: Michael Tsin on Canton, Ruth Rogaski and Brett Sheehan on Tianjin, David Buck on Changchun, Kristin Stapleton on Chengdu, Liping Wang on Hangzhou, Madeleine Dong on Beijing, Charles Musgrove on Nanjing, Stephen MacKinnon on Wuhan, Lee MacIsaac on Chongqing, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom and David Strand with concluding essays. Joseph W. Esherick is professor of history and Hsiu Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of California at San Diego. (For this item please quote stock ID 18068) ISBN: 9780824825188

Building in China is about striking an architectural balance between the pull of monumental tradition and the push of technological novelty. Centering on the dynamic period of post-imperial and pre-Communist China, the book focuses on the building and city planning initiatives of Henry Murphy. This little-known American architect initially ventured to China in 1914 to design a campus for the Yale-in-China programme, but then found himself captivated by a professional and cultural challenge that lasted two decades: how to preserve China's rich architectural traditions while also designing new buildings using up-to-date Western technologies. Murphy's buildings were compromises - ?new wine in old bottles? as he once called them - and the book uses those ?bottles? as lenses through which to understand not only Murphy's quest to find a middle ground for his architecture in China, but also to gaze at a tumultuous society facing an uncertain future. Murphy's buildings were more than vessels for either aesthetic visions or technical expertise; inadvertently they became political emblems, as Chinese rulers such as Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen's son called on Murphy for city planning advice to complement their hopes for urban reconstruction. There are few serious studies of Western architects in the twentieth century who practiced in non-Western contexts, and those scant studies that have been published concentrate largely on British, French or Dutch examples in colonial settings. Hence, the book makes significant contributions to the fields of both American and Chinese architectural history. Target Readers: Those interested in city planning or urban history, post-colonialist theory, comparative Asian studies, the history of technology or historic preservation practice will find this book breaking new ground by analyzing fresh evidence About the Author: Jeffrey W. Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he has taught architectural history since 1995. He has been investigating Henry Murphy and his contemporaries in China since 1987 when, as he was completing his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University, he spent a year as a research student at Shanghai's Tongji University. From 1989 to 1995 he taught urban history and historic preservation in Cornell's Department of City & Regional Planning. (For this item please quote stock ID 17133) ISBN: 9789622018716

Dip into this beautiful book to explore the contemporary Chinese aesthetic. Minimalist metropolitan apartments, 1930s art deco, Peranakan shop-houses, and New York lofts are all showcased in this beautiful design book. Photographed in locations as diverse as Shanghai, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, and other Southeast Asian destinations, China Style includes homes, hotels, restaurants, and shops that have never before been photographed and shows how Chinese tradition is constantly being reinterpreted to produce a fresh and dynamic style of contemporary design. The Author: Sharon Leece, a writer based in Hong Kong, was editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration (Hong Kong). She currently writes interiors and design features for a variety of magazines, as well as a weekly design column for the South China Morning Post. (For this item please quote stock ID 28363) ISBN: 9789625934570

For the purpose of collecting data, th author visited many villages in the region south of the Yangtze to make on-the-spot investigations of hundreds of ancient houses located in these villages. The conditions for the existence and development of these ancient folk houses as well as their cultural connotations have been lavishly illustrated in this book. Their fundamental mode is the atrium house with Chinese curved roof, wooden structure conjugated with tenon and mortise as well as rivets. They present in three types: Patio House, Court House and Garden Residence. The plane figure is presented as a Hall Structure symmetrically built along an axis. The external appearances of the houses are harmonious and austere looking, but a look inside reveals a wealth of ornate wooden decoration. (For this item please quote stock ID 32395) ISBN: 9787313058713

The author of this book relied on field study and documents as basic methods of research, including over ten years of travel through the region south of the Yangtze. He investigated successive generations of wood constructions, trying in the context of a new cultural history to capture the original appearance of wood constructions south of the Yangtze. This book includes a range of traditional architecture, and the technology and culture behind its creation. The rich selection of wood constructions includes various kinds of temples, palaces, balconies, and the social hierarchy's top-tier buildings. Of course, it also includes houses of common folk, workshops, and pedestrian bridges. Wood constructions south of the Yangtze, its construction, development, and overall history, form the essence of this book. In it, we explore the technological origins of its construction in the North and the problems facing its evolution. (For this item please quote stock ID 32396) ISBN: 9787313058485