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Leaving Utopian China
Author(s) -
Rong Zhou
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.734
Subject(s) - beijing , china , agrarian society , architecture , sociology , economic history , political science , economy , art history , media studies , history , law , agriculture , economics , archaeology
Until the late 20th century, China was a rural society with an agrarian economy and had little experience of the urban. This elevated the city in the collective imagination to a miraculous mirage ‐ a utopian vision. Zhou Rong , Associate Professor at Tsinghua University School of Architecture, Beijing, and Assistant Mayor of Shuozhou, describes how China has learned, earned, consumed and ultimately suffered from this idealisation of the urban. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.