AFTER serving for eight years as the chief artistic supervisor in the Hong Kong Dance Troupe, Shu Qiao recently returned to Beijing with a brand-new dance drama. named "Memorial Ceremony for Youth." The back...AFTER serving for eight years as the chief artistic supervisor in the Hong Kong Dance Troupe, Shu Qiao recently returned to Beijing with a brand-new dance drama. named "Memorial Ceremony for Youth." The background story of "Memorial Ceremony for Youth" is based on the life of the poet Yin Fu (1909-1931). Yin Fu is an important revolutionary poet of China’s modern literature. He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AFTER serving for eight years as the chief artistic supervisor in the Hong Kong Dance Troupe, Shu Qiao recently returned to Beijing with a brand-new dance drama. named "Memorial Ceremony for Youth." The background story of "Memorial Ceremony for Youth" is based on the life of the poet Yin Fu (1909-1931). Yin Fu is an important revolutionary poet of China’s modern literature. He
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.
