E-Books →Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture Social Production of Buildings and Spaces in History

• Traces the practices and traditions of ancient China from imperial authority to folk culture.
• Unveils a rich picture of early modern and republican China, revealing that modernization was already beginning to emerge.
• Describes the social, intellectual, ideological, and formal enterprises of socialist architecture.
• Frames a window on a complex and changing contemporary China by focusing on autonomy, state practices, and geopolitics of design, ultimately identifying its still evolving position on the world stage.
• Examines the existing cultural and political theories to highlight potential avenues for future transformations in Chinese architecture that also retain Chinese identity.
Providing a pioneering combination of ancient and modern Chinese architecture in one coherent study, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese architecture, architectural history and theory, and the architecture of Asia.