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Yu, Shuishan. "To achieve the unachievable : Beijing's Chang'an Avenue and Chinese architectural modernization during the PRC era /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6233.
Full textQin, Xiang. "Micro-apartment in Beijing China." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439309603.
Full text葉葆芝 and Po-chi Pamela Yip. "Urban development and modern architecture in Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41548784.
Full textChiang, Hong-man Michael, and 蔣匡文. "Fengshui planning and architecture design of Beijing (1412-1911) = Beijing feng shui jian zhu gui hua." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194609.
Full textXu, Yamin. "Wicked citizens and the social origins of China's modern authoritarian state civil strife and political control in Republican Beiping, 1928-1937 /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2002. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3082468.
Full textChiu, Calvin. "On Chinese Architecture." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/797.
Full textThe struggle with modernization began almost a century ago. After the fall of the Imperial Qing in 1911, foreign architects and local designers with Western academic backgrounds introduced formalism, functionalism, modernism, and traditionalism into the siheyuans (traditional courtyard houses) and imperial palaces of the capital city. The quest for a consciously "modern Chinese" architecture began. In the 1950s, China underwent a huge phase of reshaping along with the ascendancy of communism. The communist government adopted Soviet models to make Beijing a paradigm for social realism. They brought down ancient infrastructures and historical buildings to make way for monuments, worker apartments, and public squares. They advocated the idea of "national form and socialist content" to derive a new architecture.
From the 1980s on, Beijing and the entire nation began to enjoy the first-ever continuous twenty-five years of undisrupted time on urban and social development since the turning of the twentieth century. Under the open-door economic reform, the authorities began to transform Beijing into a cosmopolitan. The capital city was to perform not only as a showcase for political stability, but also to express the national image, values, and beliefs. They attempted to retain the tradition of Chinese order on one hand, and to welcome capitalist commodities and foreign technologies on the other. Citizens remain proud of their four-thousand-year heritage but are also overwhelmed by materialistic luxury from the economic boom. To the authorities, erasure of Beijing's physical past becomes legitimate under the reconstruction of selected heritage buildings and a rapid urban development.
Contemporary architecture in Beijing represents the chaotic phenomenon of today?s China. Bounded by its ghosted city wall, the rapidly changing capital epitomizes the conflict between the old and new. Pressures upon the shoulders of the local architects remain strong: political and economic constraints, legacies of the past, ambition to catch up with the world, and the urge of self-rediscovery in the globalized stage. What is the reality behind the ambition to catch up with the developed world? Is the desire to become modern and at the same time maintain their traditions only a curl-de-sac that leads to nowhere?
This thesis is a quest to revaluate the evolution of Chinese architecture from the classical Chinese curved-roof buildings to modern designs. In the making of modern Chinese architecture, a number of ideologies arise, along with political makeovers and societal developments, aiming to re-present past glories, to reflect present national achievements, and to reveal the dream of a utopian future. However, real living always comes second to political ideals on how the society should look and what they should head toward. The concern for humanity remains a nominal criterion after politics and economy in most of the construction projects.
This thesis focuses on a two-and-a-half-month journey in northern China. The journey is recorded in the form of a travelogue, which provides the narrative core of the thesis. In addition, the thesis includes academic research on Chinese architecture, embodied in four essays, to investigate its evolution, understand its relationship to the past, acknowledge its current dilemma, and search for the components that make up its identity for the twenty-first century. This thesis aims to give a sense of Chinese architectural development, both in theory and in practice, as well as including a collection of critical remarks on how the authorities manipulate architectural expressions and direct its development. The first two essays deal with urban symbolism in Beijing that the authorities have created to redefine the past and to construct an image of a bright future. Architects are only required to carry out duties, like civil servants, to realize governmental plans. The other two aim to make a contribution to the history of cultural fusion between China and the West, and the evolution of architectural theories that led to the current phenomenon, respectively. The former traces the evolutionary path of Chinese architecture and the latter compiles the concepts of Chinese architecture from the study of Chinese architecture to the realization of the buildings.
My journey begins with an exploration of ancient architecture in the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei, following the footsteps of architectural scholar Liang Sicheng. Liang and his team documented and studied 2,783 ancient buildings across the nation and wrote the first complete history on Chinese architecture. He then attempted to derive the principles of modern Chinese architecture from traditional essences. The Shanxi-Hebei experience enriched my knowledge in traditional Chinese architecture and showed me what had tempted the Chinese architects not to give up their traditions, despite a strong desire to move toward modernization.
My experience in Beijing, on the other hand, provided me the opportunity to understand the dilemma of Chinese architects of the twentieth century as they faced political pressures, economic restrictions, tense construction schedules, collective ideologies, and historical legacies. Their works play a crucial role of linking the contemporary with the traditional past, and unfolding possibilities to develop modern Chinese architecture. The quest for Chinese identity in architecture in the past few generations has imposed a complex layering of the urban structure of the city, which makes the capital a showcase for architectural ideologies of different eras.
In the current rapid "Manhattanization", Beijing has become an experimental ground for foreign futuristic ideas, as well as an open-air museum of imperial and socialist glories. The identity of the city is completely shaped by authorities and developers under a blindfold desire to pursue a global representation of modernization. Local architects receive little chance, time, and freedom to find their own path, make their own architecture, and develop their own profession. Societal criticisms remain scarce and creativity is limited by self-censorship. Yet, like their predecessors in the 1930s and 1950s, contemporary architects do not give up. Many of them still search for new design possibilities within the influences of traditions to innovations, and from local philosophies to Western ideologies. Although the pace of construction remains unbelievably fast in China, the development of local architecture struggles to find ways to evolve and express its societal significance. The maturity of the architectural profession remains an aspect that is unachievable through overnight transformations and one-time planning.
Du, Wei 1962. "A study of medium-rise high-density housing : Beijing, 1979-1990." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22542.
Full textFocusing on the aspects of single building design and site planning, this thesis analyses the methods to reach high building densities in medium-rise mass housing design in Beijing from 1979 to 1990. The study is conducted through the review of the socio-economic issues and the introduction of mass housing design of the country. It intends to see the interrelationships between ways to attain high building densities and the socio-economic backgrounds.
The research indicates that methods to reach high building densities are many. Ways used in Beijing during 1980s were based on the socio-economic system at the time being. These ways are not appropriate in terms of the unique urban context of the city and could be thus replaced by others.
Li, Yue 1968. "Space between buildings in Beijing's new housing." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29950.
Full textThe purpose of this study is to examine the space between buildings in Beijing's new housing developments. The space between buildings has been chosen as a starting point for this research because it covers largest amount of land and due to its close proximity to homes, it is closely related to people's daily lives.
The quality of outdoor space is defined by a combination of factors. This study uses eight criteria to address the notion of quality: spatial hierarchy; usable space; safety and defense; health and comfort; privacy and territoriality; social contact; aesthetic appeal; and maintenance and administration. These correlated aspects are set as evaluation criteria for the six case studies included in this research. Data and analysis of case studies is used to arrive at conclusions for policy-making and further study.
Yang, Fan Fiona, and 楊帆. "Understanding the uneven growth of service industries in China: state, market and the changing geography ofconsulting services." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38856359.
Full textJin, You, and 靳悠. "Changing Shichahai: an historic district for a modern world." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47090881.
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Hsu, J. "State-society relations in China : a case study of migrant civil society organisations in Beijing and Shanghai." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604688.
Full textCurrier, Carrie Liu. "Changing the face of the urban economy the intersection of household and state in Beijing /." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/70922978.html.
Full textGuo, Diane D. "Building the Invisible: Bridging the Gap Between Past and Future in Chinese Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336762867.
Full textPan, Suyan. "How higher educational institutions cope with social change the case of Tsinghua University, China /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42577755.
Full textYau, Man-ching Cindy, and 游曼淸. "Redevelopment of State Theatre." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198311X.
Full textQian, Wendy. "Comparative Case Studies of Rent-Seeking in China’s State-Owned Enterprises: the Ministry of Railway and China Mobile." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/498.
Full textElkins, Alex Gregory. "How the City State Fares Under State Capitalism in the PRC: Local and State-Wide Reform." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1364384598.
Full textBoufflet, Stéphanie. "Le processus de renaturation de la capitale chinoise à l'aube des années 2000 : un "souffle vert" sur Pékin ?" Phd thesis, Université d'Orléans, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00737494.
Full textSchabel, David Lighton. "Chinese-American Business Customs: a Comparison of Cultural Similarities and Differences." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209155405.
Full textSenate, University of Arizona Faculty. "Faculty Senate Minutes January 22, 2018." University of Arizona Faculty Senate (Tucson, AZ), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626508.
Full text"New mobility hub in Beijing: underground space as a connector." 2011. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894562.
Full text"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2010-2011, design report."
Chapter 00 --- Thesis Statement
Chapter 01 --- Background Study
Chapter 02 --- Site Analysis
Chapter 03 --- Underground Space
Chapter 04 --- Design Strategy & Development
Li, Tong. "Future Office Design of Beijing, China: Envisioning Cultural Sustainability Through Architecture." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/20959.
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"Landscape urbanism: cultural campus in post Olympic Beijing." 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896891.
Full text"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2008-2009, design report."
Includes bibliogrpahical references.
Research
Chapter 1.0 --- Thesis Statement
Chapter 1.1 --- Thesis Questions
Chapter 1.2 --- Abstract (Issue
Chapter 1.3 --- Proposition
Chapter 2.0 --- Meaning and Formation of Landscape
Chapter 2.1 --- Landscape Scale Comparison
Chapter 2.2 --- Theory . Classical
Chapter 2.3 --- Critiques on Theory of Landscape
Chapter 3.0 --- Notion of Sustainable City
Chapter 3.1 --- Green Thinking ´Ø Nature Imitation vs Green Ideology
Chapter 3.2 --- Theory on Sustainability
Chapter 3.3 --- Sustainability Issues in Beijing Context
Chapter 3.4 --- "Reference Cases . Beijing, China
Chapter 4.0 --- Beijing Evolution Conditions
Chapter 4.1 --- Social Issues: Urban Planning and Society
Chapter 4.2 --- Landscape Issues: Natural Resources and Green System Planning
Chapter 4.3 --- Architecture Issues: Built-Form and Life Pattern
Chapter 4.4 --- Human Issues: Human and Nature
Chapter 5.0 --- Beijing Landscapes Study
Chapter 5.1 --- City. Network
Chapter 5.2 --- District. Park
Chapter 5.3 --- Unit .Traditional Courtyard House
Chapter 6.0 --- Beijing Analysis
Chapter 6.1 --- Contextual Study. Beijing Green Code
Chapter 6.2 --- Study on Asian Games Site
Chapter 7.0 --- Artificial Landscape Discipline .Vocabulary and Methodology
Chapter 7.1 --- Vocabulary & Design Technique - Modeling Explorations
Chapter 8.0 --- Density and Program Implications
Chapter 8.1 --- Plot Ratio Comparison
Chapter 8.2 --- Proposed Scenario
Chapter 9.0 --- Site Experimentation
Chapter 9.1 --- Site Existing Conditon Study
Chapter 9.2 --- Strategic Responses
Design
Chapter 1.0 --- Proposition
Chapter 1.1 --- Proposition
Chapter 1.2 --- Olympic / Post-Olympic Condition
Chapter 1.3 --- Asian Games Site in Different Periods
Chapter 2.0 --- Density / Infrastructure / Cultural Campus
Chapter 2.1 --- Characteristics of Beijing City
Chapter 2.2 --- Density Issues . Comparison & Implication
Chapter 2.3 --- Infrastructure & City
Chapter 2.4 --- Idea of Campus . Idea of Culture
Chapter 3.0 --- Idea of Beijing City
Chapter 3.1 --- Strategic Positioning / Reasoning
Chapter 3.2 --- Multi-Scalar / Nested Set of Reading onYin-Yang
Chapter 3.3 --- Overlaying Ideas of Beijing City
Chapter 3.4 --- Site Conditon / Intentional Condition
Chapter 4.0 --- Site Development
Chapter 4.1 --- Photographic Inspiration
Chapter 4.2 --- Site Development Strategy / Growth Scenario
Chapter 4.3 --- Comparison & Simulation on Relative Density and Scale of Fabric
Chapter 4.4 --- Internal Organization of Asian Games Site
Chapter 4.5 --- Design Process Composite
Chapter 4.6 --- Artificial Landscape Modeling Explorations as Design Technique
Chapter 5.0 --- Design Implementation
Chapter 5.1 --- Master Plan of Cultural Campus on Asian Games Site
Chapter 5.2 --- Architectural Organization
Chapter 5.3 --- Design Development
Chapter 5.4 --- Idea of a Place
Chapter 6.0 --- Bibliography
Appendix
Zhu, Ningxin. "Towards a Sustainable Future: Courtyard in Contemporary Beijing." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7527.
Full textzhang, peng. "Art and Life - Make invisible visible in Cao changdi village, Beijing, China." 2016. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/386.
Full textDong, Alice B. "Gender, unemployment and female laid-off workers in state enterprises in contemporary China : case studies of Beijing and Changzhou." 2004. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=80145&T=F.
Full text"Mass Dancing in Happy Valley: a rehabilitation center for post-Hong Kong society." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890237.
Full text"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1999-00, design report."
Includes bibliographical references (leave 74).
Acknoledgment
Prologue --- p.p.1
Initiation --- p.p.2
Exploration --- p.p.3-7
/ Mask & Modern Society
/ Mask & Power
/ Perceiving Reality
Issue --- p.p.8-13
"/""One country"" over ""Two systems"""
/ The changes in the representation of the power of China authority in H.K.
/ Public media in Hong Kong
Hypothesis --- p.p.14-15
Intervention --- p.p.16
Justification of the site --- p.p.17
Physcial setting --- p.p.18-23
Site symbolism --- p.p.24-25
Site analysis --- p.p.26-29
/special arrangement before race
/spacial arrangement after race
/normal traffic route
/mass gathering pattern
Design concepts --- p.p.30
Project brief --- p.p.31-32
/client profile
/ user profile
/ site constraint
/ space program
Design record on conceptual design --- p.p.33-43
Design record on design development --- p.p.44-50
Design recod on final design --- p.p.51-61
Precendents --- p.p.62-66
/ Elvis (Andy Warhol)
/ Reichstag Project (Christo)
/ Fremont Street Experience (Jerde Partnership)
Interview with Professor Lee Kok Shai --- p.p67-69
Background --- p.p.70-73
"the idea of ""one country, two systems"""
Bibliography --- p.p.74
Appendix
"宗教建築的"變形記": 清代杭州城市史上的天后宮與天主堂 = Tianhou temples and Catholic Church : changing religious architecture in Qing dynasty Hangzhou." 2015. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6116432.
Full text除緒論、結論外,全文共包括四章。緒論介紹論文結構,並簡單梳理近來中國城市史研究的進展和相關議題。另外,在緒論中特別提到了韓書瑞(SusanNaquin)關於廟宇與明清北京城市歷史與生活的專著。此書透過宗教建築的變遷和作為城市公共場所的功能來看其對城市歷史的反映以及對城市生活的影響,對本文的研究視角和取徑產生了重要的指導作用。
第一章介紹清代杭州城內政治、經濟與宗教文化等不同區位的形成以及城市管理概況,以說明數座天后宮在杭州城內原本坐落的不同位置以及其後的主要變化。第二章以明末清初到雍正八年之間天主教在杭州的發展歷史為線索,介紹杭州天主堂的建立以及之後因為禁教而改做武林門天后宮的背景,藉以分梳政府宗教政策以及地方宗教管理實務之間的複雜互動。第三章探究武林門天后宮在雍正八年以後的發展,並特別著重討論官員、文人與紳商家族的各種互動關係。第四章討論由鴉片戰爭到太平天國軍隊撤離杭州的道光、咸豐、同治期間,武林門天后宮如何又在戰爭與外交局勢變動過程中而再回天后宮改為天主堂的歷史。結論強調:基於宗教建築不斷變化其性質、功能、以及在城市公共生活中扮演的不同角色,人們可以從中了解國家的對內與對外政策以及地方行政管理如何實際影響著城市的面貌,而變化的城市面貌,又將影響城市的歷史與公共生活。
This thesis examines the urban history of Qing dynasty Hangzhou by closely analyzing the religious architecture of one Tianhou temple and one Catholic Church. This examination summarizes the evolution of these features and offers some thoughts on the influence that those changes made to social life and public spaces in Hangzhou.
Apart from the introduction and conclusion, this thesis consists of four chapters. The introduction briefly reviews works Chinese urban history by scholars from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China and abroad. It then surveys the types of historical material used in the project. In particular, it reviews the contributions in Susan Naquin’s work on Beijing’stemples in Ming and Qing China as a major source of inspiration for the perspective taken in this work, as it draws upon Naquin’s perspective on religious architecture as a part of a city’s public space in order to combine an analysis on social life and urban history.
The first chapter discusses the history of Hangzhou’s administration and its political, economic, cultural and religious development in the Qing Dynasty. It then outlines the history of the locations and major changes to the Tianhou temples dedicated to the goddess Mazu throughout the city.
The second chapter begins at the end of Ming Dynasty and ends in 1730. Over this period of time, Catholicism became more popular in Hangzhou, and people built a glamorous Catholic church in the city. In 1730, provincial governor Liwei turned Hangzhou Catholic Church into the Wulin Men (the Gate of Wulin) Tianhou temple because of the Yongzheng Emperor’s prohibition of Catholicism. The case study in this chapter allows the author an opportunity to discuss the complicated interaction between governmental religious policy and local administration.
Chapter three concerns the development of Wulin Men Tianhou temple in the following century. This chapter pays special attention to the interaction of local government officials, literati, and gentry-merchant families.
Chapter four covers wars and changing diplomatic situations happened from the Opium War to the early years of the Tongzhi Reign. This chapter relates the lifting of the taboo on Catholicism in the late Qing and the transformation of the Wulin Men Tianhou temple back into a church.
The conclusion emphasizes: From the changing nature of religious buildings, as well as attention to its shifting functions and roles in urban life, one may understand something about how the internal and external policies of the government combined in local administration and development. This perspective can change our perspective on our city, which will in turn influence its history and public life.
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Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-158).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Yang Ge.