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Understanding the Chinese City (Paperback)
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Understanding the Chinese City (Paperback)
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"Li Shiqiao reveals continuities between ancient Chinese city
formations and current urban organizations where others see only
rupture and chaos. No other work on the staggering urban explosion
in China so deftly displays the complexities of these current
formulations. Bringing an impressive array of disciplines into
conversation with each other, this book gestures toward what urban
studies could and should be." - Professor Ryan Bishop, Winchester
School of Art, University of Southampton "Asked what was the
difference between Japanese space and 'western' space, Maki
declared emphatically: 'Nothing ' Tackling differences in spatial
thinking from inside both 'western' and Chinese thinking, Li
Shiqiao demonstrates how mental space, Chinese and 'western, ' is
determined by culture." - Professor Leon van Schaik, RMIT
University "Li Shiqiao has written the only book on the Chinese
city that captures at once the accelerated hypermodernity of the
Shanghai stock exchange and 2500 years of Daoist and Confucian
culture. It will be a classic." - Professor Scott Lash Goldsmiths
College, University of London This book teaches us to read the
contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of
the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by: examining how
the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing
system analyzing the continuing importance of the family and its
barriers of protection against real and imagined dangers exploring
the meanings of labour, and the resultant numerical and financial
hierarchies demonstrating how actual structures bring into visual
being the conceptions of numerical distributions, safety networks,
and aesthetic orders. Understanding the Chinese City elegantly
traces a thread between ancient Chinese city formations and current
urban organizations, revealing hidden continuities that show how
instrumental the past has been in forming the present. It
contextualizes Chinese urban experiences in relation to familiar
intellectual landmarks. Rather than becoming obstacles to change,
ancient practices have become effective strategies of adaptation
under radically new terms.
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