Architecture and the Landscape of Modernity in China Before 1949

by Edward Denison

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472431685
• ISBN13: 9781472431684
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.9"