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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mr. Wong's world
  name:
    name part: Schidlowski, Christian.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (81 min.).
  abstract: Shanghai, the center of Chinese capitalism, has been undergoing an unprecedented building boom. Over 2,000 high-rise buildings have gone up since the 1990's. As a result, many historic treasures fall prey to the wrecking ball. Mr. Wong is a wealthy businessman who returned to China from Canada. He has made it his mission to spend every penny he can on rescuing old houses, villas, and temples of old Shanghai that are no longer valued by the development-minded Chinese. Whenever Mr. Wong travels the streets of Shanghai, he keeps his eyes open, ready to buy any house worth preserving before the sledge hammering begins. Stone by stone his workers disassemble the old houses and bring them to a large property outside of Shanghai he bought expressly for the purpose of setting up a park for endangered buildings. He envisions a safe haven for lost traditions and ancient arts. Most of his fellow Chinese are mystified. Town planners and investors see him as a threat to progress and an obstacle to their plans. This is both an intriguing and humane story of a most unusual man realizing his vision against all odds. It is an insightful portrait of the divided soul of modern China.
  target audience: For High School; College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: directed by Christian Schidlowski.
  note: Previously published as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc-sm
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: China
    geographic: Shanghai
  subject:
    topic: Historic buildings
    topic: Conservation and restoration
    geographic: China
    geographic: Shanghai
  subject:
    geographic: Shanghai (China)
    topic: Buildings, structures, etc
    topic: Conservation and restoration
  classification: NA109.C6 S353 2008
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)747797086
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324201529.7
    record identifier: in00003746544