London, New York, Routledge, 2013, xvi & 192 pp. Review by Martin Minost The Chinese middle classes – and the question of their definition –…

Harry Den Hartog (éd.), Shanghai New Towns. Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis, Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 2010, 416 p.   Le livre Shanghai…

Bianca Bosker, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, Hong Kong University Press, University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, xii & 164 p.   En 2001, la…

Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 2010, 416 pp.   Shanghai New Towns, edited by the Dutch architect Harry den Hartog, is interesting on two counts. To begin…

Hong Kong University Press, University of Hawai’i Press, 2013, xii & 164 pp. At the initiative of its mayor in 2001, Shanghai municipality launched an…