Shenzhen

Author : Guy Delisle
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770461871

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Shenzhen by Guy Delisle Pdf

Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French animation company. By translating his fish-out-of-water experiences into accessible graphic novels, Delisle skillfully notes the differences between Western and Eastern cultures, while also conveying his compassion for the simple freedoms that escape his colleagues in the Communist state. Shenzhen has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.

Author : Mary Ann O'Donnell,Winnie Wong,Jonathan Bach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226401263

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Learning from Shenzhen by Mary Ann O'Donnell,Winnie Wong,Jonathan Bach Pdf

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.

Author : Juan Du
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674242234

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The Shenzhen Experiment by Juan Du Pdf

An award-winning Hong Kong–based architect with decades of experience designing buildings and planning cities in the People’s Republic of China takes us to the Pearl River delta and into the heart of China’s iconic Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen. Shenzhen is ground zero for the economic transformation China has seen in recent decades. In 1979, driven by China’s widespread poverty, Deng Xiaoping supported a bold proposal to experiment with economic policies in a rural borderland next to Hong Kong. The site was designated as the City of Shenzhen and soon after became China’s first Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Four decades later, Shenzhen is a megacity of twenty million, an internationally recognized digital technology hub, and the world’s most successful economic zone. Some see it as a modern miracle city that seemingly came from nowhere, attributing its success solely to centralized planning and Shenzhen’s proximity to Hong Kong. The Chinese government has built hundreds of new towns using the Shenzhen model, yet none has come close to replicating the city’s level of economic success. But is it true that Shenzhen has no meaningful history? That the city was planned on a tabula rasa? That the region’s rural past has had no significant impact on the urban present? Juan Du unravels the myth of Shenzhen and shows us how this world-famous “instant city” has a surprising history—filled with oyster fishermen, villages that remain encased within city blocks, a secret informal housing system—and how it has been catapulted to success as much by the ingenuity of its original farmers as by Beijing’s policy makers. The Shenzhen Experiment is an important story for all rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nations around the world seeking to replicate China’s economic success in the twenty-first century.

Author : Richard Hu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000205350

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The Shenzhen Phenomenon by Richard Hu Pdf

The Shenzhen Phenomenon is a comprehensive and systematic study about how Shenzhen, the world’s fastest growing city, has developed into an international metropolis from scratch within 40 years. It unravels the decision and policy making, planning, design, and development processes that have enabled the city’s rapid growth, and associated problems and paradoxes. It also reveals the politics and power that have propelled this experimental city to spearhead Deng Xiaoping’s ‘reform and opening-up’ agenda, which has made the city and remade the nation. This book demystifies several long-held misperceptions through identifying Shenzhen’s rise as an opportunity deriving from a crisis, as a product of both grassroots ingenuity and top vision, and as both a planned city and an unplanned city. Produced on the 40th anniversary of Shenzhen, this timely volume not only offers a comprehensive and systematic chronicle of the city, but also opens a window to understand China’s new city making and urbanisation. It will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the field of urban and Chinese studies, as well as urban planning and design.

Author : Thomas Bird,Mike Bosick,Johan Nylander
Publisher : Odyssey Books & Maps
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9622178847

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Shenzhen by Thomas Bird,Mike Bosick,Johan Nylander Pdf

This beautifully designed coffee table-sized photo-book documents Shenzhen's meteoric 40-year rise from rural obscurity to becoming one of China's leading financial and technological centers. The book contains nine satellite images, 175 B&W historical and recent colour photographs, as well as stunning drone photography from awarding winning photographer Wu Guoyong. Rare helicopter photos taken by Shenzhen-based photojournalist Zhang Xiaoyu during the 1990s give context to the extraordinary transformation this young city has undergone. As well as a timeline and extensive photo captions, essays covering a range of topics are also included. Wong How Man, the president and founder of the China Exploration & Research Society, Hong Kong-based veteran journalist David Dodwell, Beijing-based travel writer Thomas Bird, Shenzhen-based copywriter Mike Bossick and Shenzhen Superstars author Johan Nylander, contributed their expertise and penmanship to the book. This publication would not have been possible without the generous support of the China Ping An Financial Group, the rise of which parallels Shenzhen's own success story. The Ping An Financial Centre is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the world. This iconic building towers over Shenzhen's cityscape, dominating many of the panoramas featured throughout the book.

Author : Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Guo Man,Feng Xingyuan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429748950

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Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Guo Man,Feng Xingyuan Pdf

This book focuses on Shenzhen, one of China’s most globalized metropolises, a leading centre of high-tech industries and, as a melting pot of migrants from all over China, a place of vibrant cultural creativity. While in the early stages of Shenzhen’s development this vibrant cultural creativity was associated with the resilience of traditional social structures in Shenzhen’s migrant ‘urban villages’, today these structures undergird dynamic entrepreneurship and urban self-organization throughout Shenzhen, and have gradually merged with the formal structures of urban governance and politics. This book examines these developments, showing how important traditional social structures and traditional Chinese culture have been for China’s economic modernization. The book goes on to draw out the implications of this for the future of Chinese culture and Chinese economic engagement in a globalized world.

Author : Pui King Lau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cooperative industrial research
ISBN : UCSD:31822037185584

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Shenzhen-Hong Kong Technology Industry Cooperation by Pui King Lau Pdf

Author : Wai Man Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822006387757

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China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone by Wai Man Wu Pdf

Author : Linda Vlassenrood
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9462082375

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Shenzhen by Linda Vlassenrood Pdf

The spectacular story of Shenzhen is well-known: the former fishing village became a New Town in 1980 when the central Chinese government gave it the status of Special Economic Zone. Shenzhen soon became a metropolis and a prototype for both economic and urban reform within China. Now the time has come for Shenzhen that is an inevitable part of the life cycle of any fast growing New Town in the world: the city needs to explore its own identity anew and define the next phase of development. Shenzhen has been raising eyebrows for years: its fast urbanization process causes many social and ecological problems such as a massive floating population, a shortage of land and water resources, and deterioration of the environment. What will be the next step? This book will provide both a detailed overview of Shenzhen's current planning issues and illustrate viable solutions, by authoritative theorists and designers from China and the Netherlands, including Huang Weiwen, Doreen Liu, Tat Lam, Li Jinkui, Arnold Reijndorp, Ronald Wall and Linda Vlassenrood.

Author : Nancy Lan Liu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : China
ISBN : WISC:89054042510

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Planning the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China, 1979-1984 by Nancy Lan Liu Pdf

Author : Huang Guosheng
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781861518095

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The Road to Shenzhen by Huang Guosheng Pdf

It is the early 1990s and Zhou Haonan, an innocent young man from a rural family in China's West Canton Province, travels to the `golden city' of Shenzhen to seek his fortune. Kind and caring but highly ambitious, he works as an international businessman, becomes a Sanda boxing champion and even sells his blood as he spends the next 20 years striving desperately to achieve his dream of a Shenzhen permanent residence permit and a home of his own. Despite a string of humiliating failures and disasters and cruel treatment by the women who enter his life, he somehow manages to get back on his feet and carry on through all the setbacks which life throws at him. The Road to Shenzhen is one of very few novels ever to be written in English by a Chinese author who has lived all his life in China.ÿ

Author : Boy Lüthje,Stefanie Hürtgen,Peter Pawlicki,Martina Sproll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780742568495

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From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen by Boy Lüthje,Stefanie Hürtgen,Peter Pawlicki,Martina Sproll Pdf

This seminal study explores the significant changes in the global IT industry as production has shifted from the developed world to massive sites in the developing world that house hundreds of thousands of workers in appalling low-wage conditions to minimize labor costs. The authors trace the development of the new networks of globalized mass production in the IT industry and the reorganization of work since the 1990s, capturing the systemic nature of an industry-wide restructuring of production and work in the global context. Their wide-ranging and detailed analysis takes the debates on the globalization of production beyond narrow perspectives of determining criteria of “success” for participation in global networks. Rather, they emphasize the changing nature of work, employment relations, and labor policies and their implications for the possibilities of sustainable economic and social development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Ocean engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822010016319

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Proceedings of the Symposium on Offshore Engineering, March 25-27, 1981, Shenzhen, China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electric industries
ISBN : UCSD:31822036738979

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Global Sources Electronics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guy Delisle
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466708

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Factory Summers by Guy Delisle Pdf

For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father’s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy’s dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren’t close, and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad’s aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school–only to be told on the first day, “There are no jobs in animation.” Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall