Beautified China

Author : Kris Provoost
Publisher : Lannoo Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9401461694

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"Beautified China shows the country's modern architecture in new light" - CNN Style Photo-Series "Provides an abstracted look at China's iconic architecture," - ArchDaily.com. This book of stunning photographs by architect and photographer Kris Provoost captures the wave of the architectural revolution in China. Internationally renowned architects such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Liebeskind and many others have been engaged in creative, futuristic, and flamboyant projects in China in recent years. The sky is literally the limit, both in terms of construction, use of materials and design. Unimaginable forms, which defy all rules of gravity, come to life in immense skyscrapers. Beautified China offers an overview of these revolutionary designs, capturing their surreal impact in photographs that explore the free play of form that characterises each building. The book features essays by Rem Koolhaas, Ma Yansong & Ole Scheeren, among others, and each photograph is accompanied by information pertinent to the project, including function, environment, and context. AUTHOR: Kris Provoost is a Belgian architect and photographer. After receiving his Master's in Architecture, he moved to China, where he further expanded his career. He worked for, among others, Zaha Hadid Architects & Buro Ole Scheeren. He also focuses on architectural photography. His work has previously appeared in CNN Style, Dezeen, ArchDaily, Designboom, gooood, That's Mag Beijing, Time Out Shanghai, Abduzeedo, Fubiz, and T-Magazine. SELLING POINTS: * A photo essay by Belgian architect and photographer Kris Provoost capturing the boldest and most iconic structures of the architectural revolution in China * Striking images of fantastical buildings from unexpected angles and perspectives 180 colour, 40 b/w images

Author : Richard J. Weller,Tatum L. Hands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1943532818

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Beautiful China by Richard J. Weller,Tatum L. Hands Pdf

Beautiful China is the title of the Chinese government's broad policy to ensure the traditions and esthetics of Chinese culture not only survive as heritage but apply to contemporary society and to the future. Beautiful China is also nested within the larger policy concept of creating an "ecological civilization." Applied to a nation of over 1.3 billion people and the second most powerful economy in the world, these policies are arguably the most fascinating socio-political experiment taking place anywhere in the world today. This book is the first serious consideration of this policy and what it means for the design professions in contemporary China.

Author : Jiahua Pan,Shiji Gao,Qingrui Li,Jinnan Wang,Dekai Wu,Chengliang Huang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789813367425

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Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views on Eco-civilization Construction by Jiahua Pan,Shiji Gao,Qingrui Li,Jinnan Wang,Dekai Wu,Chengliang Huang Pdf

This book discusses and studies the basic course of ecological civilization construction in the 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China and summarizes the experience and lessons. It contains 75 articles from 75 top experts and government officials in the field of ecological civilization policy-making and basic theory research in China, including Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, ecological culture, green industry economy, environmental quality, legal system, ecological security and so on, so as to provide reference for understanding and studying the progress of ecological environment protection since the founding of China.

Author : Lina Unali
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443898027

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Beautiful China by Lina Unali Pdf

This volume discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China. It explores the European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.

Author : Peter G. Rowe
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035626339

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Chinese Modern by Peter G. Rowe Pdf

Rowe’s third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture and planning in China, with a focus on this development within the broader framework of nation-building. Episodes and periods interrogated in the book range from the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 to the proclamation of Xi Jinping’s ‘China Dream’ 100 years later. Episodes will be foregrounded by commentary about the general states of the nation and particularly by urban planning undertakings. Providing a wide-ranging survey of Chinese modern architecture that has a historic aspect to it, the book introduces the reader to a plethora of originative and influential buildings, momentous urban schemes as well as the architects and planners behind them.

Author : André Leon Talley
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593129265

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The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments. “The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion.”—Manolo Blahnik NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Fortune • Garden & Gun • New York Post During André Leon Talley’s first magazine job, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily, befriending fashion's most important designers (Halston, Yves Saint Laurent, Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. There, he eventually became creative director, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue’s masthead, André also ascended, and soon became the most influential man in fashion. The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism, illicit rumors, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion. Woven throughout the book are also André’s own personal struggles that impacted him over the decades, along with intimate stories of those he turned to for inspiration (Diana Vreeland, Diane von Fürstenberg, Lee Radziwill, to name a few), and of course his Southern roots and faith, which guided him since childhood. The result is a highly compelling read that captures the essence of a world few of us will ever have real access to, but one that we all want to know oh so much more about.

Author : Eleanor Ray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982163525

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The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton by Eleanor Ray Pdf

A collector of objects, Amy Ashton, who believes it is easier to love things than people, finds her solitary existence interrupted when a new family moves in next door with two young boys--one of whom has a collection of his own.

Author : Kevin Sinclair,Tan Lee Leng,Jacki Passmore,Weldon Owen Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006*
Category : China
ISBN : 0681152710

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China, the Beautiful Cookbook by Kevin Sinclair,Tan Lee Leng,Jacki Passmore,Weldon Owen Inc Pdf

Author : Alberto Bologna
Publisher : Antique Collector's Club
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1943532389

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Chinese Brutalism Today by Alberto Bologna Pdf

Chinese Brutalism Today' is divided into three chapters and ends with a methodological afterword that explains the reasons why the research was carried out and the scientific tools used. The first chapter is "Exposed concrete in the design process," the second is "Identity Research: Towards an Ornate Surface" and the third is "Global ambition: towards a polished surface." The narration takes place through a substantial written part accompanied by specific images that facilitate the understanding of the text. Transversally, in the narrative, an interpretation is given to the precise and ambiguous dictates announced in 2017 by President Xi Jinping: to pursue a contemporary architecture made of "international standards with Chinese characteristics."

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : China Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : 083512388X

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung by Zedong Mao Pdf

Author : Gulbahar Haitiwaji,Rozenn Morgat
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644213889

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How I Survived a Chinese "Reeducation" Camp by Gulbahar Haitiwaji,Rozenn Morgat Pdf

The first memoir about the "reeducation" camps by a Uyghur woman, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive—and resist—under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition features a new introduction by the author. “I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.” — Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match For three years Gulbahar Haitiwaji was held in Chinese detention centers and “reeducation” camps, enduring interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, rats, and nights under the blinding fluorescent lights of her prison cell. Her only crime? Being a Uyghur. China’s brutal repression of Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide and reported widely in media around the world. In 2019, the New York Times published the “Xinjiang Papers,” leaked documents exposing the forced detention of more than one million Uyghurs in Chinese “reeducation” camps. The Chinese government denies that these camps are concentration camps, seeking to legitimize their existence in the name of the “total fight against Islamic terrorism, infiltration and separatism” and calling them “schools.” But none of this is true. Gulbahar only escaped thanks to the relentless efforts of her daughter, with the help of the French diplomatic corps. Others have not been so fortunate. In How I Survived a Chinese “Reeducation” Camp, Gulbahar tells her story, describing the insidious nature of oppression, the dehumanizing effects of torture and brainwashing, and the human drive to survive—and resist—under even the most horrific circumstances. This new paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Author : Nigel Cameron
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : 0883631571

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Spectacular China by Nigel Cameron Pdf

Since Marco Polo first returned from the Far East in 1295 with exotic treasures and wondrous stories, China has fascinated the West. For this unique publishing co-venture, the China Tourist Press has collected a lifetime of works from the very best Chinese photographers, seen together in book form for the first time. of foldouts in which each image expands to nearly four feet wide.

Author : Mary Helen Bowers
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780847858378

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Ballet for Life by Mary Helen Bowers Pdf

A chic and informative guide to the Ballet Beautiful method, featuring dance-inspired exercises, wellness tips, and lifestyle advice that help readers achieve ballerina confidence and self-esteem. After a career with the New York City Ballet, Mary Helen Bowers created Ballet Beautiful, a fitness and lifestyle program inspired by ballet’s artistry and athleticism. Designed to give anyone a ballerina body, Bowers’s targeted exercises tone and lengthen muscles, develop good posture, and teach grace in movement. Since launching in 2008, Bowers and her training have been sought after by celebrities and models (Alexa Chung, Liv Tyler, and Miranda Kerr, to name a few), as well as thousands of women across the globe through their streaming service. This book delves into the Ballet Beautiful universe, showing readers how to attain a ballerina’s lean and powerful physique and graceful poise via exercises, posture lessons, wellness tips, and fashion and beauty advice that can be effortlessly incorporated into everyday routines. The book features original images by the legendary photographers Inez and Vinoodh coupled with technical photographs illustrating the Ballet Beautiful workout and lifestyle. A refreshing antidote to traditional fitness programs and restrictive diets, this book is a stylish and instructional guide to transforming your body and life though ballet.

Author : Angang Hu,Yilong Yan,Xiao Tang,Shenglong Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811598333

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2050 China by Angang Hu,Yilong Yan,Xiao Tang,Shenglong Liu Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. According to the report delivered at the 19th Party Congress, and according to the “two-stage” strategic plan, this book looks ahead in detail to the overarching objective and sub-objectives of essentially achieving socialist modernization by 2035, discusses the building of a great modern socialist country in all respects from the perspective of the Party’s six-sphere integrated plan of economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization, and national defense construction, and provides policy proposals. This book also analyzes the influence and the effect of the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics on the world and it further presents the third centenary goal. In conclusion, this book is an elaboration of the work of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University. It reflects the intellectual innovation in the authors’ research on contemporary China, as well as the authors’ foresight and predictions about China’s future development.

Author : Xiwen Chen,Houkai Wei,Yaping Song
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811990281

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Rural Revitalization in China by Xiwen Chen,Houkai Wei,Yaping Song Pdf

On the basis of systematically summarizing and sorting out the significant achievements made since China's rural reform, this book comprehensively explains the theoretical basis, principles and strategies of the road to rural revitalization of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Through in-depth research on nine aspects of rural basic management system, rural deepening reform, food security, modernization of agriculture and rural areas, integrated development of urban and rural areas, poverty alleviation, new rural construction, ecological civilization construction and rural governance, this book puts forward the development direction and strategic choice of China's rural revitalization by the middle of this century. It not only enriches and develops the theory of development economics, but also provides experiences for rural development in developing countries.