Search Results for urban planning

... painted scrolls urban planning urban skyline The contemporary city scrolls adhere to traditional aesthetics, yet they also point to radically new cityscapes and mediascapes. The imperial scrolls accentuate the symbolic order of capital city planning, harking to the ideal layout stipulated...

... with the actual structure of Beijing: “First Space” represents the city center, “Second Space” the suburbs, and “Third Space” the outer suburbs. Since 2004, urban development planning, defined by the Beijing chengshi zongti guihua 北京城市總體規劃 (Beijing City Master Plan), has focused on decentralization...

... Fourth literature borderland spirituality In 1931, the young Shen Congwen 沈從文 (1902–1988), who would become a towering figure of modern Chinese literature, prefaced his ethnic romance “Longzhu” 龍朱 by lamenting how his ethnic traits had been lost through acculturation into urban life in Han Chinese...

...Jie Lu Abstract A reading of the cinematic representation of the global city in Chinese “new urban films” and in rural-migrant films leads this article to focus on the plurality and dialogism among different chronotopes produced collectively across these films. The article argues that the global...

...Winnie L. M. Yee Abstract The often-heated debates concerning Hong Kong's literary representations all take as a premise that Hong Kong has an urban identity, defined by its mythic transformation from a fishing village to a metropolis. On the return of the sovereignty to mainland China in 1997...

..., landmarks, and their civic-planning schemata in its urbanizing drive. To pursue the issue further, I attempt to disclose and dissect the root of the conceptual pitfalls that misguided many Chinese technocrats by adopting an ahistorical, disembodied vision of modern-style buildings they had encountered...

... at Lingnan University of Hong Kong in the summer of 2019. In planning this special issue, I wanted a broader perspective and issued an open call for papers, hoping for a real cross section of innovative scholarship pursued by scholars of diverse theoretical interests. When all the proposals were collected, I...

... picture of the peasantry and urban proletariat in his plan to compose a country-and-city symphony in Ziye . Marston Anderson has reaffirmed Mao Dun's disapproving narrative of his work as being incomplete, claiming that Ziye represents Chinese society only in miniature by portraying Shanghai's urban...

...—from the republican revolution to the communist revolution, from urban planning to rural reconstruction, from free love to literary creativity—have turned into one nightmare after another. When the dreamland proves to be a facade for the wasteland, utopia betrays its dystopian nature. The fin-de...

..., Marxist ecology emphasizes the human self-conscious ability and foresight in remaking their own nature, futures, and societies. “Human beings are the self-conscious part of nature,” Peter Dickens writes, “clearly a result of evolution, but a species that plans ahead and shapes its own development.” 6...

... characteristics. Issues of identity, cultural representation, and agency jostle with the palpable shifts from rural to urban landscapes, from natural forests and free-running waterways alive with species to vistas of devastated forests, increased croplands, and water tables sundered by hydroelectric dams...

... and furnishing building material, the brick testifies to a practice that combines labor and art and a biological rebirth associated with the fertility of the earth. The brick is not only useful but also aesthetically resonant. Working closely with the workers in the fields and workshops rather than from urban...

... the Chinese script diverted too much from the original plan and insisted on adding two more scenes at the very beginning of the story, including one showing that the Soviet experts chose voluntarily to give up their work in the Soviet Union to help with the socialist construction in China. Lin Shan believed...

... that without superior expertise of urban professionals and Western-educated engineers it would take a miracle to build a hydropower plant. The young people go to the city to study the techniques of hydropower and run a village night school. Educated and uneducated villagers attend the night school and eagerly...

... and sand, scarcity and necessity motivate the builders to utilize the abundant iron, sand, and silicon. By turning sand into glass structures, they screen themselves from inclement nature by building “a crystal box” in the wilderness (271). The new urban space represents “the crystallization of the ideal...

..., and silicon. By turning sand into glass structures, they screen themselves from inclement nature by building “a crystal box” in the wilderness (271). The new urban space represents “the crystallization of the ideal of humanity co-existing in harmony with nature” (308). More than dwellings, the glass houses...

.... The prevention seeks to find a new water source by digging new wells. In Withered Trees Meet Spring , Sister Ku's fiancé, driving a tractor to improve the soil, discovers a preventive method that buries schistosomiasis-borne snails in deep soil. Subject to verification by epidemiologists of urban medical...

... that the representations of the county-level city in Jia's early films can be interpreted as a formal perspective or position to visualize the disappearance of an old reality and the emergence of multiple new realities. What characterizes the county-level city, Zhang explains, is its liminality: “Between rural and urban...

... urban youths saw this as a new trend, and held transformation parties on full New Moon nights, where they turned into beasts with the aid of drugs and machinery and engaged in mass orgies.” 14 In 2003 Albrecht coined the term solastalgia to describe a psychological concept widely discussed...

... is critical ecological degradation, which allows the seemingly environmentally friendly TerraGreen Recycling project to “improve and remediate” the ecology there. Scott Brandle, the high-level executive of the TerraGreen Recycling project, claims that this project's “plan would create tens of thousands of new...