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Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction

By Ou Ning

Book information

Publisher
Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9789811557903, 9789811557910
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-5791-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8036029 bytes)
Series
Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XLV, 442\470
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
CitiesPolitical Science and International Relations; Asitowns)

Description

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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