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Original copies : architectural mimicry in contemporary China
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Original copies : architectural mimicry in contemporary China / Bianca Bosker ; with a foreword by Jerome Silbergeld.
ISBN
9780824836061 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0824836065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9789888139149
9888139142
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xii, 191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Published in China by Hong Kong University Press."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2013
Series
Spatial habitus
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p.147-153) and index.
Contents
Into "the land of courtly enjoyments" : an introduction to China's architectural mimicry
The fascination with faux : philosophical and theoretical drivers of architectural reproduction in China
Manifestations of westernization : the anatomy of China's simulacrascapes
Simulacra and the Sino-psyche : understanding the Chinese motivation for replicating the alien
Residential revolution : inside the twenty-first century Chinese dream.
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