When reading the Chinese city, which this book sets out to do, it is not the well-known cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi an that are in the focus of attention, but rather the essentially Chinese of the Chinese city, those characteristics or attributes that are more or less shared by all Chinese cities. The spotlight is on their spatial grammar, their syntax, in short: t...(展开全部)

Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the past trajectories, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - ...(展开全部)

China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to in vestigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on loc...(展开全部)

China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to in vestigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on loc...(展开全部)

Nancy Chen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book manuscript "Breathing spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry and Bodypolitics of late Twentieth Century China" is under revision for publication. Constance Clark teaches in the department of women studies at San Francisco State University. Suzanne Gottschang is Luce Assistant Professor of Ea...(展开全部)

安妮‧米柯萊 1983年生於德國德勒斯登，現為蘇黎世聯邦理工學院（ETH Zurich, DARCH）研究員及博士候選人。2009年獲得瑞士聯邦理工學院（Swiss Federal Institute of Technology）建築學位，曾獲蘇黎世聯邦理工學院的卓越獎學金和機會獎學金、德國學術交流資訊中心獎學金以及數項海外交流獎學金，並曾於坂茂歐洲建築師事務所（Shigeru Ban Architects Europe）及阿迪萊爾珍諾維巴黎設計工作室（Atelier Jean Nouvel in Paris）擔任建築師。其研究探討房地產市場、城市經濟和制度架構不斷變遷下的城市發展。 摩里茲‧普克豪爾 1985年生於德國德勒斯登，蘇黎世聯邦理工學院（ETH Zurich, DARCH）前科學研究員，現於蘇黎士卡魯索聖約翰建築師事務所（Caruso S...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "The next five years will be [...] a period of opportunity for China to speed up the growth of software and information services outsourcing. China will continue to generate strong market demand for the global software industry." -H.E. Bo Xi Lai Minister, China Central Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Praise for Source Code China The New Global Hub of IT Outsourcing "Cy...(展开全部)