Author : Johnathan Andrew Farris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789888313679
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Enclave to Urbanity by : Johnathan Andrew Farris
Download or read book Enclave to Urbanity written by Johnathan Andrew Farris and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city's predominantly Chinese population. The book takes readers through three phases: the Thirteen Factories era from the eighteenth century to the 1850s; the Shamian enclave up to the early twentieth century; and the adoption of Western building techniques throughout the city as its architecture modernized in the early Republic. The discussi.