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Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

Visser, Robin

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Chinese HistoryGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0822347091
ISBN13: 9780822347095
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 12 2010
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. Interpreting fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design, she analyzes how the aesthetics of the urban environment have shaped the emotions and behavior of people and cultures, and how individual and collective images of and practices in the city have produced urban aesthetics. By relating the built environment to culture, Visser situates postsocialist Chinese urban aesthetics within local and global economic and intellectual trends.

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