ON the occasion of the 50thanniversary of the foundingof New China,KunmingInternational HorticulturalExposition’99 and the 20thAssociation of InternationalArchitects Conference happen to beheld in China.These two great
AT the Sixth National Minorities Games, a women's folk shuttlecock team from Beijing aroused the audience with their outstanding performance. This team is composed of four members: Chen Jing, Li Shiying, Zhang Lin...AT the Sixth National Minorities Games, a women's folk shuttlecock team from Beijing aroused the audience with their outstanding performance. This team is composed of four members: Chen Jing, Li Shiying, Zhang Ling and their coach Liang Wanjiang.展开更多
The article explores the morphological evolution of China’s 20^(th)-century architecture chronologically.Chinese Neoclassicism has played a major role in forming the 20^(th)-century heritage buildings surviving today...The article explores the morphological evolution of China’s 20^(th)-century architecture chronologically.Chinese Neoclassicism has played a major role in forming the 20^(th)-century heritage buildings surviving today.The phenomenon of Neoclassicism emerged because of the late arrival of China’s modernisation and industrialisation process compared with the West.In turn,in accepting and contesting Western culture,the Chinese elite have consciously relied upon architecture as a vehicle to uphold visible symbols of national Chinese identity and traditional Chinese culture.Meanwhile,in the foreign settlements of the treaty ports such as Shanghai,the Western Neoclassical style,along with other imported construction trends,also forms part of China’s 20^(th)-century architectural heritage.Western Neoclassicism’s influence on China’s new architecture became even more evident in the mid-20^(th) century,with the modern architectural heritage in Tiananmen Square as its exemplar.Nevertheless,the impact of Western modernist architecture on China’s architecture was minimal.It was not until the 1980s,as China reopened to the world,that various schools of thought from the post-industrial West flowed into China,which significantly enriched the types and sources of China’s 20^(th)-century architectural heritage.Modern Classicism,late Modernism and Postmodernism all found their way into China’s contemporary architecture.展开更多
文摘ON the occasion of the 50thanniversary of the foundingof New China,KunmingInternational HorticulturalExposition’99 and the 20thAssociation of InternationalArchitects Conference happen to beheld in China.These two great
文摘AT the Sixth National Minorities Games, a women's folk shuttlecock team from Beijing aroused the audience with their outstanding performance. This team is composed of four members: Chen Jing, Li Shiying, Zhang Ling and their coach Liang Wanjiang.
基金This paper is a substantial rewrite of a first text published in Chinese‘On the Form Models and Their Context of the China’s 20th-Century Heritage Architecture’,(Chang 2019)with new sections added and major updates in texts and figures.
文摘The article explores the morphological evolution of China’s 20^(th)-century architecture chronologically.Chinese Neoclassicism has played a major role in forming the 20^(th)-century heritage buildings surviving today.The phenomenon of Neoclassicism emerged because of the late arrival of China’s modernisation and industrialisation process compared with the West.In turn,in accepting and contesting Western culture,the Chinese elite have consciously relied upon architecture as a vehicle to uphold visible symbols of national Chinese identity and traditional Chinese culture.Meanwhile,in the foreign settlements of the treaty ports such as Shanghai,the Western Neoclassical style,along with other imported construction trends,also forms part of China’s 20^(th)-century architectural heritage.Western Neoclassicism’s influence on China’s new architecture became even more evident in the mid-20^(th) century,with the modern architectural heritage in Tiananmen Square as its exemplar.Nevertheless,the impact of Western modernist architecture on China’s architecture was minimal.It was not until the 1980s,as China reopened to the world,that various schools of thought from the post-industrial West flowed into China,which significantly enriched the types and sources of China’s 20^(th)-century architectural heritage.Modern Classicism,late Modernism and Postmodernism all found their way into China’s contemporary architecture.
