1. Edition - June 2008
57.90 Euro
2008. 336 Pages, Hardcover
- Professional Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-31928-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-31928-4 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
China remains as conspicuously absent from written histories of modernism as modernism does from written histories of China. Modernism in China confronts this by investigating China's unique experience of modernism, its remarkable variety, striking contradictions, and recurrent paradoxes. As it has occurred elsewhere in the world, modernism, as it developed in China, acquired its own unique language, forged from its geographical, cultural, historical, and political circumstances. This extensive study analyzes, for the first time, the role of modernism in the development of China's architectural and urban landscapes throughout the twentieth century, linking its unrivalled ancient traditions with the economic behemoth of today.