Rediscovery Of Cultural Landscapes In Southern China

Author : Wallace P.H. Chang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000874570

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Rediscovery of Cultural Landscapes in Southern China by Wallace P.H. Chang Pdf

This book investigates the concept of human landscape in rural settlements in Southern China, where communities and their cultural landscapes are facing contemporary challenges following a period of rapid urbanization in the last 50 years. While metropolitan cities, such as Hong Kong, are experiencing accelerated urban development, underpopulated rural villages are struggling to maintain the cultural heritage of their regions. Rediscovery of Cultural Landscapes in Southern China provides a detailed account into indigenous living cultures in traditional, rural settlements upon natural landscapes. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical framework, the book presents six unique cases, including: Tai O, Yim Tin Tsai, Lai Chi Wo, Nga Tsin Wai, Cangdong, and Meinong, while illustrating a relevant comparison between Hakka and Satoyama landscape systems. The spectrum of theoretical and case analyses allows for a rethinking of the evolving cultural landscape’s positioning with valuable heritages in the context of a post-industrial society. The book is written towards reinterpreting the cultural landscape by conceptualizing the human landscape for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in rural-cultural conservation and revitalization, heritage management, traditional architecture and landscape planning, and urban-rural development.

Author : Luxiang Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : China
ISBN : 7505404083

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China's Cultural Heritage by Luxiang Wang Pdf

Author : Matthias Messmer,Hsin-Mei Chuang
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262019866

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China's Vanishing Worlds by Matthias Messmer,Hsin-Mei Chuang Pdf

Photographs and text document disappearing cultural landscapes and lifestyles in rural China, capturing poignant scenes far from Beijing or Shanghai. Just a few kilometers from the glittering skylines of Shanghai and Beijing, we encounter a vast countryside, an often forgotten and seemingly limitless landscape stretching far beyond the outskirts of the cities. Following traces of old trade routes, once-flourishing marketplaces, abandoned country estates, decrepit model villages, and the sites of mystic rituals, the authors of this book spent seven years exploring, photographing, and observing the vast interior of China, where the majority of Chinese people live in ways virtually unchanged for centuries. China's Vanishing Worlds is an impressive documentation in images and text of modernization's effect on traditional ways of life, and a sympathetic portrait of lives burdened by hardship but blessed by simplicity and tranquility. The scars of China's recent history and the decay of centuries-old traditions are made visible in this volume, but so is the lure and promise of technology and another life for young people. In the next twenty years, an estimated 280 million Chinese villagers will become city dwellers, leaving their ancestral homes in search of urban jobs and opportunities. In striking and evocative color photographs, we see picturesque villages set against a background of rolling hills, planned centuries ago according to the principles of feng shui; a restaurant with bright pink resin chairs and a wide-screen television; traditional buildings preserved by the accident of poverty and isolation; ramshackle rooms decorated with portraits of Chairman Mao; backpack-wearing children walking to school; festivals with elaborately costumed performers; old men playing cards; buyers and sellers at open-air markets. China's Vanishing Worlds offers readers a rare opportunity to glimpse China as it once was, and as it will soon no longer be.

Author : Australian Public Affairs Information Service
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 07278926

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A Subject Index to Current Literature by Australian Public Affairs Information Service Pdf

Author : Haiming Yan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338052

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World Heritage Craze in China by Haiming Yan Pdf

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking recognition from UNESCO. This book explores three dimensions of the UNESCO World Heritage initiative with particular relevance for China: the universal agenda, the national practices, and the local responses. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Historians
ISBN : UOM:39015054026094

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Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians by Anonim Pdf

Author : K K Sharma
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Tourism
ISBN : 8176255122

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World Tourism Today by K K Sharma Pdf

Author : Marlene Laruelle
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498546553

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The Central Asia–Afghanistan Relationship by Marlene Laruelle Pdf

Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan. The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts—a section of the Silk Road, a pawn in the “Great Game,” the “spillover” state that exemplifies the failure of US foreign policy—that limit scholarly understanding. This edited volume contributes by providing a broad, long-term analysis of the Central Asia–Afghanistan relationship over the last several decades. It addresses the legacy of Soviet intervention with a unique first-hand selection of interviews of former Soviet Central Asian soldiers that fought in the Soviet–Afghan War. It examines Afghanistan’s norther neighbors, discussing Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—their strategy for Afghanistan, their perception of challenges and opportunities of the country, and patterns of cooperation and conflict. The collection also looks at recent US strategic initiatives in the region, in particular the New Silk Road Initiative that envisions a growing Central Asia–South Asia connection.

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317341307

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Negotiating Cultural Identity by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. It examines the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia, as manifest in society, religious architecture and as shaped through trade and economic transactions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Gardens
ISBN : UOM:39015039914331

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Paradise on Earth by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015033978290

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Through Different Eyes by David Parker Pdf

Analysis of the experiences and changing idientities of young Chinese people in Britain

Author : Christoph Brumann,David Berliner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785330926

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World Heritage on the Ground by Christoph Brumann,David Berliner Pdf

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.

Author : Jessica Brown,Nora J. Mitchell,Michael Beresford
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Landscape protection
ISBN : 9782831707976

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The Protected Landscape Approach by Jessica Brown,Nora J. Mitchell,Michael Beresford Pdf

The traditional patterns of land use that have created many of the world's cultural landscapes contribute to biodiversity, support ecological processes, provide important environmental services, and have proven sustainable over the centuries. Protected landscapes can serve as living models of sustainable use of land and resources, and offer important lessons for sustainable development. Examples of these landscapes and the diverse strategies needed to maintain this essential relationship between people and the land are provided.

Author : Ying Guan,Li Liu,Xiaoyan Yang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832520031

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Ancient Starch Remains and Prehistoric Human Subsistence by Ying Guan,Li Liu,Xiaoyan Yang Pdf

Author : Luca Zan,Bing Yu,Jianli Yu,Haiming Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351680233

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Heritage Sites in Contemporary China by Luca Zan,Bing Yu,Jianli Yu,Haiming Yan Pdf

Heritage Sites in Contemporary China: Cultural Policies and Management Practices focuses on cultural heritage policies in China emerging in the period of the 11th and 12th Five Year Plans. Various important Chinese sites across China are investigated, including Luoyang Sui, Daming Gong, Niuheliang, Xinjiang, and Nanyuewang through the dual perspective of archaeological debate and as a case study of policy making. It explores the relationship between policy and the institutional and administrative conditions, such as budgeting and land concerns, which affect it. Building on the research project implemented by the China Academy for Cultural Heritage (CACH) from 2012–2014, which focused on the impact of the Dayizhi Policy for Great Archaeological Sites, the book provides an interdisciplinary insider’s approach to viewing archaeological discoveries; policies and emerging practices in site and archaeological management; and public administration in China. Featuring contributions from experts within CACH and from the Chinese community of archaeologists, and including numerous tables, data and maps, it will appeal to researchers and scholars in disciplines such as archaeology, heritage management, public administration, and policy making.