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Bianca Bosker
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Paperback. While the center of many Chinese cities now flaunt structures that reflect cutting edge design, engineering, and building technology, the environs of Chinas megalopolises, larger cities, and even smaller towns in provinces throughout the country have bee Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPC; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 189 x 10. Weight in Grams: 474.
A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées 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 of monumental themed communities that replicate towns and cities in the West.
Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been ... Read more
A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées 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 of monumental themed communities that replicate towns and cities in the West.
Original Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824836061
SKU
V9780824836061
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About Bianca Bosker
Bianca Bosker is a graduate of Princeton University. She lives in New York and is senior tech editor at the Huffington Post.
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