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  title info:
    title: Modernism in late-Mao China
    sub title: architecture for foreign affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and overseas, 1969-1976
  name:
    name part: Song, Ke
    name part: 1989-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely, buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for foreign trade in Guangzhou and China's foreign aid projects overseas. The emergence of new architecture in the early 1970s is closely associated with China's political and diplomatic shift of the time, from a radical emphasis on ideological struggle to a dynamic balance between leftist ideology and pragmatic concerns. In this context, China's relations with the West quickly improved, culminating at American president Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972. The increasing foreign affairs brought new opportunities to Chinese architects who referenced both Western modernism and Chinese architectural traditions to create a new version of Chinese modernism. The book brings dimensions of form, politics and knowledge to the analysis of architecture, to construct an understanding of architectural design as an aesthetic, political and intellectual practice. It will be an enriching and useful reference for students and scholars who are interested in global architectural history of the twentieth century, especially Cold War modernism.
  table of contents: Rethinking Modernism: Form, Knowledge and Politics -- Political Ideology and Architectural Discourse in Mao's China -- Chinese Modernism in the 1950s and the 1960s -- Diplomatic Buildings in the 1970s Beijing -- Foreign Trade Buildings in the 1970s Guangzhou -- China's Foreign Aid Architecture, 1964-1976.
  note: Ke Song.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-207) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Modern movement (Architecture)
    geographic: China
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and state
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: NA1545.5.M63 S66 2023
  classification: 720.951/0904
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221103
    record change date: 20230731145403.8
    record identifier: in00004730989