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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: Once upon a China
  name:
    name part: Lim, C. J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: McCloy, Steve
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 327 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
  abstract: "Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honor and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion,' 'Journey to the West,' 'The Water Margin' and 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' and are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity, domesticity, consumerism, democracy and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain diverse voices and philosophical perspectives on history as well as satires that have defined past developments of Chinese societies, politics and the built environment. Comics is an unorthodox but extraordinary medium for architectural speculations. The eccentric characteristics of comic-inspired drawings in this book enrich the process of conception and conceptualization of design, their fragmented yet sequential nature proves versatile in the imagination of spatial experiences, enabling the complex story of the place, brief and building to materialize. At the same time, the politicization of architecture through comics engenders a sense of optimism to reappraise Chinese critical thinking and design futures beyond the exuberance of non-contextual western capitalist models.
  note: CJ Lim + Steve McCloy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: China
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: China
    genre: Comic books, strips, etc
  classification: NA1540 .L537 2021
  classification: 720.951
  identifier: 9781138224414
  identifier: 1138224413
  identifier: 9781138224438
  identifier: 113822443X
  identifier: 9781315402543
  identifier: 9781315402529 (ePub ebook)
  identifier: 9781315402536 (PDF ebook)
  identifier: 2020041488
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200910
    record change date: 20210820135403.0
    record identifier: in00004449816