Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
(Part of the Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture Series)
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A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elys es Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen's Guard patrols Shanghai's Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot Chinese cities from Fuyang to Shenzhen. These examples are but a sampling of China's most popular and startling architectural movement: the construction...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824836065
ISBN13:9780824836061
Release Date:January 2013
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 7.3" x 9.1"
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