1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450006403321

Titolo

The modern city revisited / / edited by Thomas Deckker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Spon Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-80250-5

1-280-17126-X

0-203-99203-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DeckkerThomas

Disciplina

307.1/216

307.1216

Soggetti

City planning

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Communities - Urban Groups

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART 1 ALTERNATIVE VISIONS; PART 2 VISION VERSUS REALITY; PART 3 THE DECLINE OF MODERNISM; AFTERWORD; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966070403321

Autore

Hodge Bob (Robert Ian Vere)

Titolo

The politics of Chinese language and culture : the art of reading dragons / / Bob Hodge and Kam Louie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-69164-5

1-280-05566-9

0-203-34474-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Culture and communication in Asia

Altri autori (Persone)

LouieKam

Disciplina

306.0951

306.20951

Soggetti

Chinese language - Political aspects

Chinese language - Social aspects

Language and culture - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-178) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Series editor's foreword; Preface; 1. How to Read Dragons: the politics of understanding Chinese culture; 2.Reading style: interacting the Chinese way; 3. Writing and the ideological machine: Chinese characters and the construction of gender; 4. Grammar as ideology: critical linguistics and the politics of syntax; 5. Living with double-think: ambiguity in discourse and grammar; 6.The cult of the hero: masculinity and popular culture; 7.Breaking the square: film and representations of China

BibliographyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a more relevant analysis of the Chinese and China.