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133 NOTES Chapter 1: Into “the Land of Courtly Enjoyments” 1 Alan Balfour, interview with the author, August 27, 2008; Lin Hai, interview with the author, October 14, 2008; Quang Nguyen, interview with the author, April 17, 2010. 2 See Ronald Knapp, China’s Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1999). 3 Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 683–738; Fulong Wu, ed., Globalization and the Chinese City (New York: Routledge, 2006); Zhou Rong, interview with the author, October 16, 2008. 4 See Thomas J. Campanella, The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008). 5 Robert Fogel, “$123,000,000,000,000*,” Foreign Policy, July 14, 2010; http://www.foreignpolicy .com/articles/2010/01/04/123000000000000. 6 Campanella, The Concrete Dragon, 15. 7 J. P. Morgan, “China Property Monthly Wrap,” Asia Pacific Equity Research, March 11, 2010. 8 Wang Qian, “Short-Lived Buildings Create Huge Waste,” China Daily, March 6, 2010; http:// www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010–04/06/content_9687545.htm. 9 Campanella, The Concrete Dragon, 15; Zhuang He, “China Real-Estate Investment Rose 16.1% in 2009, Ministry Says,” Bloomberg, March 8, 2010; http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010–03 –08/china-s-2009-housing-investments-rise-16-1-percent-update2-.html. 10 John Ng, “Privatized Housing Impedes Cooling Efforts,” Asia Times, July 6, 2006; http://www .atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HG06Cb06.html. 11 “Chinese Per Capita Housing Space Triples in 20 Years,” China Daily, March 17, 2008; http:// www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008–03/17/content_6542889.htm. 12 David Barboza, “Skyrocketing Prices May Point to a Real Estate Bubble in China,” New York Times, March 4, 2010; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/business/global/05yuan.html. 13 Chia-Peck Wong, “China Property Sales Rise 75.5% to 4.4 Trillion Yuan,” Businessweek, January 18, 2010; http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010–01–18/china-s-2009-property-sales-rise -75–5-to-4–4-trillion-yuan.html; “China’s Home Mortgage Lending Up 48% in 2009,” China Daily, January 21, 2010; http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010–01/21/content_9354507.htm. 14 “China’s Local Governments Strive to House Average People,” People’s Daily, January 29, 2010; http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6882281.html; J. P. Morgan, “China Property Monthly Wrap.” 15 Elizabeth Rosenthal, “North of Beijing, California Dreams Come True,” New York Times, February 3, 2003; http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/international/asia/03CHIN .html?pagewanted=1. 16 Li Yan, interview with the author, October 9, 2008. 17 “Beverly Hills,” Beverly Hills; http://www.beverlyhills.com.cn; Campanella, The Concrete Dragon, 212. 18 “New Investors Sought for Japanese Theme Park Huis ten Bosch,” GoDutch.com, April 7, 2003; http://www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=109. 134 19 Tom Lewis, The Hudson: A History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), 193. 20 Ibid. See also Kathleen Eagen Johnson, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside (Tarrytown, NY: Historic Hudson Valley Press, 1995); Benson J. Lossing, The Hudson: From the Wilderness to the Sea (Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 2000), 341–349. 21 “The Rise of Collegiate Gothic 1888–1899,” Princeton Campus: An Interactive Computer History 1746–1996; http://etcweb.princeton.edu/Campus/chap5.html. 22 Robbie Brown, “In Hard Times, White House Replica Goes Up for Sale,” New York Times, January 8, 2009; http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/americas/08iht-08atlanta.19175714 .html. 23 “Origins of Classical Place Names in Upstate New York,” York Staters; http://yorkstaters .blogspot.com/2006/01/whats-in-name-no2-origins-of-classical.html. 24 Thomas Campanella, interview with the author, September 17, 2008. 25 Xin Zhigang, “Dissecting China’s ‘Middle Class,’ ” China Daily, October 27, 2004; http://www .chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004–10/27/content_386060.htm; “Report: China Has World’s Fifth Largest Number of High Net Worth Households,” People’s Daily, October 31, 2007; http:// english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6293645.html; “Who Are China’s Middle Class?” China.org.cn, January 23, 2010; http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010–01/23/content_19293900 .htm. 26 Angela Wiederhecker, “China: Retailers Tap into Hierarchy of the Nouveau Super-Riche,” Financial Times, June 4, 2007; http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0825bf90-1238-11dc-b963 -000b5df10621.html#axzzlpWHYAPY8. 27 James Fallows, Postcards from Tomorrow Square (New...

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