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A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysees Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen's Guard patrols Shanghai's Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White H...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Bosker, Bianca (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Silbergeld, Jerome (writer of supplemental textual content.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Västerländska influenser > historia.
Arkitektur > historia.
Themengarten
Verwestlichung
Architektur
Architecture > Western influences.
Architecture > Themes, motives.
Architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
Architecture > Chine > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Architecture > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Architecture > Chine > Themes, motifs.
Architecture > China > History > 21st century.
Architecture > China > History > 20th century.
Architecture > China > Western influences.
Architecture > China > Themes, motives.
China
China.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Into "the land of courtly enjoyments" : an introduction to China's architectural mimicry
  • The fascination with faux : philosophical and theoretical drivers of architectural reproduction in China
  • Manifestations of westernization : the anatomy of China's simulacrascapes
  • Simulacra and the Sino-psyche : understanding the Chinese motivation for replicating the alien
  • Residential revolution : inside the twenty-first century Chinese dream.

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