Suzhou

Author : Michael Marme
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731126
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suzhou written by Michael Marme and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how, though Suzhou entered the Ming defeated and suspect, interactions between the imperial state and local elites gave rise to a network of markets, centered on Suzhou, that fostered high-quality local specialization.

Author : Ron Henderson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207254
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Suzhou written by Ron Henderson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city's masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of Suzhou, landscape architect and scholar Ron Henderson guides visitors through seventeen of these gardens. The book explores UNESCO world cultural heritage sites such as the Master of the Nets Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden, and Garden of the Peaceful Mind, as well as other lesser-known but equally significant gardens in the Suzhou region. Unlike the acclaimed religious and imperial gardens found elsewhere in Asia, Suzhou's gardens were designed by scholars and intellectuals to be domestic spaces that drew upon China's rich visual and literary tradition, embedding cultural references within the landscapes. The elements of the gardens confront the visitor: rocks, trees, and walls are pushed into the foreground to compress and compact space, as if great hands had gathered a mountainous territory of rocky cliffs, forests, and streams, then squeezed it tightly until the entire region would fit into a small city garden. Henderson's commentary opens Suzhou's gardens, with their literary and musical references, to non-Chinese visitors. Drawing on years of intimate experience and study, he combines the history and spatial organization of each garden with personal insights into their rockeries, architecture, plants, and waters. Fully illustrated with newly drawn plans, maps, and original photographs, The Gardens of Suzhou invites visitors, researchers, and designers to pause and observe astonishing works from one of the world's greatest garden design traditions.

Author : John Wong
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981120005X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suzhou Industrial Park: Achievements, Challenges And Prospects written by John Wong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the Suzhou Industrial Park, a flagship project between the governments of Singapore and China, in a holistic manner, by highlighting not only its economic progress but also the developments on the social front such as its neighbourhood centres, schools, housing and talent attraction. The success of the Park should be assessed keeping in view not only its economic achievements alone, but also its ability to attract residents to live and play in it. Making the Suzhou Industrial Park economically and socially attractive is thus a perennial challenge and remains key to the continued success of the industrial park.This book details Suzhou Industrial Park's latest effort in industrial upgrading and transformation in terms of new growth areas as well as the challenges faced. It examines the social achievements of the Park, which are critical in enhancing the overall attractiveness of the Park and distinguishes it from other industrial parks in China and elsewhere. It also highlights how the experiences of the Suzhou Industrial Park is being replicated not only in the Jiangsu province, but also in other provinces and autonomous regions in China.

Author : Dunzhen Liu
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou written by Dunzhen Liu and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will gain deep insight not only into the art of gardening in China, but into its historical significance within the context of gardening and landscape design worldwide.".

Author : Peter J. Carroll
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753593
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Heaven and Modernity written by Peter J. Carroll and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining social, political, and cultural history, this book examines the contestation over space, history, and power in the late Qing and Republican-era reconstruction of the ancient capital of Suzhou as a modern city. Located fifty miles west of Shanghai, Suzhou has been celebrated throughout Asia as a cynosure of Chinese urbanity and economic plenty for a thousand years. With the city's 1895 opening as a treaty port, businessmen and state officials began to draw on Western urban planning in order to bolster Chinese political and economic power against Japanese encroachment. As a result, both Suzhou as a whole and individual components of the cityscape developed new significance according to a calculus of commerce and nationalism. Japanese monks and travelers, Chinese officials, local people, and others competed to claim Suzhou’s streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples, and thereby to define the course of Suzhou’s and greater China’s modernity.

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521855594
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375 written by Kang-i Sun Chang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.

Author : Professor of Finance Manhong Mannie Liu
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813108703
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Investing in China written by Professor of Finance Manhong Mannie Liu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese economy is growing at an unprecedented speed, and one of the emerging trends is angel investment. It is an area with tremendous potential for growth. Compared with the more mature markets in Western countries, however, angel investing in China is still at an early stage, due to a lack of incentives and insufficient policy support. By delving into existing literature on China's angel investment and conducting interviews with leading angel investors for China and abroad, Prof. Liu Manhong and Dr Wang Jiani ? both scholars on and practitioners in the angel investment market ? try to provide readers with a detailed picture of China's angel market: What is going on in the market? How should the government formulate relevant polices? And, perhaps more pertinently, what should investors know if they have invested in or are going to enter this market? This book will be very useful for scholars and researchers on China's angel market, as well as those "angels" who would like to tap its full potential.

Author : Andrew Forbes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426201486
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shanghai written by Andrew Forbes and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular series of guidebooks for the modern-day traveler offering information on cities and countries around the world continues, presenting up-to-date backgrounds and descriptions, detailed maps, hundreds of photographs, and much more, including walking and driving tours, visitor information directories, and cultural sidebars.

Author : Linda Cooke Johnson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791414231
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China written by Linda Cooke Johnson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy. The six studies focus on the urban centers of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai. Emphasizing the regional focus, the authors explore the interconnections and sequential relationships between these major cities and analyze common themes such as the development of handicraft industry, transport and commerce, class structure, ethnic diversity and internal immigration, and the social and political pressures generated by developments in manufacturing, taxes, and government politics. The book provides a valuable resource on commercial development and internal economic and social development in pre-modern China, particularly on specific regional development and the historical role of traditional Chinese cities.

Author : Helaine Kaplan Prentice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888931150
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suzhou written by Helaine Kaplan Prentice and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a two-week charette conducted in July 1996 in Souzhou, China. Extensive documentation of this charette is presented here, including dozens of sketches, drawings and details developed by the members of the charette.