Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Thresholds 17
But where Southeast Asian architects are still concerned with issues of tropicality and the natural for its identity, in China the discourses of politics and economics have dominated criticism and restricted the forms of expression. Kerry S. Fan's review of the Chinese Architectural Journal illus trates the effects of politics on not only the form, but the technology and materials favored in various stages of China's history since 1949. As the singular publishing organ of the academy, its contents chronicle the state's desire to harness built form and history as propaganda. This unified voice of belief and practice is in marked contrast to the landscape of contemporary China, as demonstrated in San San Kwan's article on Shanghai Tang. The political sources for a modern Chinese identity are made into absurd commodities. The government's attempts to police national form and mean ing are subverted in Tang's successful ven ture to give China its first international brand.
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