Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments A Note on Chinese Names and Other Clarifications Introduction DIVERGENCETO CONVERGENCE 1 Chinese Architecture on the Eve of the Beaux-Arts 2 Just What Was Beaux-Arts Architectural Composition? CONVERGENCETO INFLUENCE Convergence to Influence Introductory Perspectives 3 Chinese Architecture Students at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s Tradition, Exchange, and the Search for Modernity 4 An Outline of Beaux-Arts Education in China Transplantation, Localization, and Entrenchment 5 A Classicist Architecture for Utopia The Soviet Contacts 6 Beaux-Arts Practice and Education by Chinese Architects in Taiwan vii ix xi 3 23 41 45 73 91 127 Jeffrey W. Cody PART I Nancy S. Steinhardt David Van Zanten PART II Jeffrey W. Cody Tony Atkin GU Daqing K. Sizheng FAN FU Chao-Ching PART III Jeffrey W. Cody Xing RUAN Seng KUAN ZHAO Chen Jeffrey W. Cody Rudolf G. Wagner Delin LAI Yung Ho CHANG Peter J. Carroll ZHANG Jie Joseph Rykwert 147 153 169 193 207 223 279 301 315 333 361 369 373 INFLUENCETO PARADIGM Influence to Paradigm Introductory Perspectives Yang Tingbao, Dong Dayou, and Liang Sicheng 7 Yang Tingbao, China’s Modern Architect in the Twentieth Century 8 Between Beaux-Arts and Modernism Dong Dayou and the Architecture of 1930s Shanghai 9 Elevation or Façade A Re-evaluation of Liang Sicheng’s Interpretation of Chinese Timber Architecture in the Light of Beaux-Arts Classicism Lü Yanzhi, Zhang Kaiji, and Zhang Bo 10 From Studio to Practice Chinese and Non-Chinese Architects Working Together 11 Ritual, Architecture, Politics, and Publicity during the Republic Enshrining Sun Yat-sen 12 The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Auditorium A Preaching Space for Modern China 13 Zhang vs. Zhang Symmetry and Split: A Development in Chinese Architecture of the 1950s and 1960s Chinese Cities 14 The Beaux-Arts in Another Register Governmental Administrative and Civic Centers in City Plans of the Republican Era 15 Chinese Urbanism beyond the Beaux-Arts Afterword The Four and the Five Contributors Index ...