Learning from Shenzhen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Learning from Shenzhen write by Mary Ann O'Donnell. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Learning from Shenzhen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This volume developed out of two conferences: 'Shenzhen+China, Utopias+Dystopias', held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, and 'Learning from Shenzhen', held at the Shenzhen Land Use Resources and Planning Commission in 2011 as part of the Shenzhen Urbanism Biennale"--ECIP data.
Learning from Shenzhen
Learning from Shenzhen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Learning from Shenzhen write by Mary Ann O'Donnell. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Learning from Shenzhen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China’s special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China’s emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world’s most dynamic metropolises, this collective history uses the urban case study to explore critical problems and possibilities relevant for modern-day China and beyond.
Chinese Lessons
Chinese Lessons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Lessons write by John Pomfret. This book was released on 2006-08-08. Chinese Lessons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "As a twenty-two-year-old exchange student at Nanjing University in 1981, John Pomfret was one of the first American students to be admitted to China after the Communist Revolution of 1949. Living in a cramped dorm room, Pomfret was exposed to a country few outsiders had ever experienced, one fresh from the twin tragedies of Mao's rule - the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution." "Twenty years after first leaving China, Pomfret returned to the university for a class reunion. Once again, he immersed himself in the lives of his classmates, especially the one woman and four men whose stories make up Chinese Lessons, an intimate and revealing portrait of the Chinese people." "Beginning with Pomfret's first day in China, Chinese Lessons takes us back to the often torturous paths that brought together the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. We learn that Old Wu's father was killed during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being an intellectual; Book Idiot Zhou labored in the fields for years rather than agree to a Party-arranged marriage; Little Guan was forced to publicly denounce and humiliate her father." "As we follow Pomfret's classmates from childhood to university and on to adulthood, we see the effect that the country's transition from near-feudal communism to First World capitalism has had on his classmates. This riveting portrait of the Chinese people will not only change your understanding of China but also challenge your perception of the way fate can shape the course of nations as surely as it has the extraordinary lives of these five classmates."--BOOK JACKET.
The Shenzhen Experiment
The Shenzhen Experiment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shenzhen Experiment write by Juan Du. This book was released on 2020-01-07. The Shenzhen Experiment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab “instant city,” but a place influenced by deep local history.
Shenzhen
Shenzhen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shenzhen write by Guy Delisle. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Shenzhen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the usual deprivations of a man very far from home. After Pyongyang, his book about the strange society that is North Korea, Delisle turned his attention to Shenzhen, the cold, urban city in Southern China that is sealed off with electric fences and armed guards from the rest of the country. The result is another brilliant graphic novel - funny, scary, utterly original and illuminating.
