Overview
- Documents a fascinating experiment in rural reconstruction in China, the Bishan Project
- Provides historical contexts to the problems of Chinese urbanization
- Answers a global desire for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today’s environmental and political crises
Part of the book series: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (CEAVCSP)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan. The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China.
The writings describe and criticize the social problems caused by China’s over-loading urbanization process and starts a a contemporary agrarianism and agritopianism discourse to resist the modernism and developmentalism doctrine which dominated China for more than a century, answering a global desire for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today’s environmental and political crises.This practical utopian commune project ran for 6 years and caused a national debate on rural issues in China, when it was invited to be exhibited and presented abroad.
This collection of writing will be of interest to artists, China scholars, architects, and the cultural community at large.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Utopia in Practice
Book Subtitle: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction
Authors: Ou Ning
Series Title: Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5791-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5790-3Published: 30 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5793-4Published: 30 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5791-0Published: 29 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-7701
Series E-ISSN: 2662-771X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLV, 442
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, Urban Politics, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)