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The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XL-5/W7, 2015 25th International CIPA Symposium 2015, 31 August – 04 September 2015, Taipei, Taiwan ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES AND PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT RESIDENTIAL COMPLEXES OF THE CHANGS IN XIANGAN, XIAMEN Xia Jina , Shang-chia Chiou b a Graduate School of the Design Doctoral Program, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, [email protected] b Department of Architecture and Interior Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, [email protected] KEY WORDS: Styleguide Xiang'an, Changs ancient residential, Minnan architectural, Ancient architecture, Preservation maintenance ABSTRACT: Ancient architecture is an important cultural symbol of a nation, which has high historical, artistic and technology of cultural value. A building not only carries the creator of effort, but also the past with the future of the historical traditions and humanistic significance. It is not purely construction of artistic expression, even more the witness of the production and development of social groups. Therefore, it is not only the common cultural heritage of mankind, as more equally important to protect these ancient buildings for the promotion of spiritual civilization and local economic development. In recent years, China and other developing countries, which in the pursuit of rapid economic development, are also facing the problems of development and preservation, Especially influenced by the inherent ―reform and innovation‖ traditional concepts, many ancient villages and buildings with rich cultural connotation are in a great danger. Xiang'an is one of the six administrative regions of Xiamen, The Tungyuan village and numerous surrounding villages which in Xiang'an retain a large number of ancient buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties, but it has not been given due attention, many ancient buildings are facing the crisis of disappearing. -
Historic Building Appraisal 1 Tsang Tai Uk Sha Tin, N.T
Historic Building Appraisal 1 Tsang Tai Uk Sha Tin, N.T. Tsang Tai Uk (曾大屋, literally the Big Mansion of the Tsang Family) is also Historical called Shan Ha Wai (山廈圍, literally, Walled Village at the Foothill). Its Interest construction was started in 1847 and completed in 1867. Measuring 45 metres by 137 metres, it was built by Tsang Koon-man (曾貫萬, 1808-1894), nicknamed Tsang Sam-li (曾三利), who was a Hakka (客家) originated from Wuhua (五華) of Guangdong (廣東) province which was famous for producing masons. He came to Hong Kong from Wuhua working as a quarryman at the age of 16 in Cha Kwo Ling (茶果嶺) and Shaukiwan (筲箕灣). He set up his quarry business in Shaukiwan having his shop called Sam Lee Quarry (三利石行). Due to the large demand for building stone when Hong Kong was developed as a city since it became a ceded territory of Britain in 1841, he made huge profit. He bought land in Sha Tin from the Tsangs and built the village. The completed village accommodated around 100 residential units for his family and descendents. It was a shelter of some 500 refugees during the Second World War and the name of Tsang Tai Uk has since been adopted. The sizable and huge fortified village is a typical Hakka three-hall-four-row Architectural (三堂四横) walled village. It is in a Qing (清) vernacular design having a Merit symmetrical layout with the main entrance, entrance hall, middle hall and main hall at the central axis. Two other entrances are to either side of the front wall. -
China October 2004
China Country Report OCTOBER 2004 Country Information and Policy Unit IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY DIRECTORATE HOME OFFICE, UNITED KINGDOM Contents 1. Scope of the Document 1.1–1.10 2. Geography 2.1–2.19 The Environment 2.4–2.8 Population 2.9–2.11 Naming Conventions 2.12–2.13 Languages 2.14–2.19 - Dialects within Fujian 2.16–2.17 - Pinyin Translation System 2.18–2.19 3. Economy 3.1–3.23 Poverty 3.2–3.7 Go West Development Programme 3.8–3.10 State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) 3.11–3.13 - Liaoning Province 3.13 Unemployment 3.14 Currency 3.15 Corruption 3.16–3.23 4. History 4.1–4.17 China, 1949–66 4.1–4.2 China, 1966–74: Cultural Revolution 4.3–4.4 China, October 2004 China, 1976–78 4.5–4.6 China, 1978–89: Economic Reform 4.7–4.8 China, 1989: Tiananmen Square Protests 4.9–4.11 Post-Tiananmen Square 4.12–4.17 5. State Structures 5.1–5.104 The Constitution 5.1–5.4 Citizenship and Nationality 5.5–5.8 The Political System 5.9–5.23 - The Leadership 5.12–5.20 - Village Committees 5.21–5.23 Judiciary 5.24–5.29 - Criminal Procedures Law (1997) 5.28 - Law on Administrative Appeals (1999) 5.29 Legal Rights/Detention 5.30–5.46 - Hitting an Official 5.37–5.38 - Arrest Warrants 5.39 - Death Penalty 5.40–5.45 - Organ Harvesting 5.46 Internal Security 5.47–5.56 - Police Accountability 5.49–5.52 - Police Organisation 5.53 - Police Corruption/Incompetence 5.54–5.56 Prisons and Prison Conditions 5.57–5.73 - Model Prisons 5.62–5.63 - Prison Conditions in Fujian 5.64 - Prison Conditions in Tibet (Xizang) 5.65–5.68 - Re-education through Labour (RTL) 5.69–5.71 - -
Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts
Chapter 19 Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts Hong Kong’s hard-working people enjoy a wide variety of sports, cultural and recreational opportunities, whether as participants or spectators. These activities range from major international sports and arts events to community programmes in which people of all ages and abilities can take part. The Home Affairs Bureau co-ordinates government policies on recreation, sports, culture and heritage. Organisations such as the Sports Commission and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council help the government in drawing up these policies. The Sports Commission advises on all matters relating to sports development and oversees committees on community sports, elite sports and major sports events. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), an executive arm of the bureau, provides services to preserve Hong Kong’s cultural heritage, enhance its physical environment, and foster co-operative interaction between sports, cultural and community organisations. The department organises exhibitions, sporting events and cultural performances ranging from music and dance to opera. Recreation and Sports The department develops and co-ordinates the provision of high-quality recreational and sports facilities for leisure enjoyment, including parks, landscaped open spaces, sports grounds, playgrounds, sports centres, holiday camps, water sports centres, swimming pools and beaches. It also organises and supports a wide variety of recreation and sports programmes to promote community sports, identify sporting talent and raise sporting standards. It works closely with the District Councils, the National Sports Associations under the auspices of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, District Sports Associations, and schools to promote sport for all and encourage everyone to take part in sports and recreational activities. -
ASU Students Go Global China France Trinidad & Tobago
ASU Global Issues No. 4 ISSN 2330-3042 ASU Students Go Global China France Trinidad & Tobago GLOBAL. POTENTIAL. REALIZED Albany State University Office of Global Programs 504 College Drive, Albany, Georgia 31705 Wiley Hall Rooms 212, 230 & 231 ASU Global Issues—No. 4 ISSN 2330-3042 © 2014 Albany State University, Albany, Georgia Sponsored by ASU Student Affairs President Dr. Art Dunning Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Abiodun Ojemakinde Editor Dr. Nneka Nora Osakwe Associate Editors Dr. Devona Mallory Dr. Geneva Diamond Design Mr. Henry A. Okafor Printing Albany State University Word Processing Center. ASU Global Issues (AGI) is published by Albany State University’s Office of Global Programs. It showcases the global engagements and skills of the ASU community and its commitment to diversity and International Education, an essential component for retention and actualizing quality education. Opinions expressed in the issues are not those of the University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without a written permission from Albany State University (ASU), Albany, Georgia. ASU is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. (SACS). This project and publication is sponsored in part by ASU Student Affairs Office Cover Photo: Jonatan Payton, Business Management major (at a primary school in China) 02 Table of Contents Editor’s Note…………………………………………………………………………………………………………04 China Study Abroad by Ashley Griffin………………………………………………………………………………05 China Study Abroad by Tahari Hart –Sanders, Chelsea Davis & Jonathan Payton………………………………...08 Trinidad & Tobago Study Abroad by Joi Bell, Channel Ayers, Gabrielle Potts…………………………………….09 Trinidad & Tobago Study Abroad by Milira Holder, Keyonta Bigby & Jacquelyn Gillard………………………..10 European Council Study Abroad , Paris, France by Kalisia Winkey………………………………………………..11 Trinidad & Tobago Study Abroad Faculty Report, Dr. -
Rebuilt the Fading Vicinity
Rebuilt the Fading Vicinity Yifan Du 05. Content Communities with Intention 28 The Amazon Project Business Model for Amazon 01. 3 Core Factors of Amazon Prime Success Limitations of Unity Program Thinking in the Sinking Ark 1 Building a Community with Intention Social Recognition 02. 06. We are Becoming Islands 4 Neighbors App Design 42 Invisible Wall Our Phantom Limbs Wireframe The Furthest Closeness Core Features Persona #1 Persona #2 03. The Dying of the Light 16 07. The Sense of Vicinity The Answer is in the Vicinity The Changing of the Productive Structure 68 We are Turning Inward 08. 04. The Savior of None 70 Colosseum of Earthly Delights 22 Tu Lou 09. The Boundary The Trusted Network Work Cited 74 ii PROLOGUE “freedom”—a word each of us must define in our own terms. Some of the smaller houses have a Japanese look, designed By Mike Fink for the G.I. generation on small lots of land requiring miniature adjustments to the “American dream”—a more modest one At semester’s end the usual final “crit” draws a crowd of then than recently. professors, fellow students, and friends to create an audience, a community, for your share of about a quarter of an hour. Yifan’s senior project was to combine the ancient civilization My job from liberal arts is mostly to admire! as eloquently of China—a vast country with smaller communities dealing as do-able. I had a t.a.—a teaching assistant—from China— with local issues of defense and community relations—and who helped me to zoom my lectures internationally with his yet to celebrate the “progress” achieved by Yankee ingenuity. -
1 INTRODUCTION Accounts of Taiwan and Its History Have Been
INTRODUCTION Accounts of Taiwan and its history have been profoundly influenced by cultural and political ideologies, which have fluctuated radically over the past four centuries on the island. Small parts of Taiwan were ruled by the Dutch (1624-1662), Spanish (1626-1642), Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga)1 and his heirs (1662-1683), and a large part by Qing Dynasty China (1683-1895). Thereafter, the whole of the island was under Japanese control for half a century (1895-1945), and after World War II, it was taken over by the Republic of China (ROC), being governed for more than four decades by the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang (KMT), or Chinese Nationalist Party,2 before democratization began in earnest in the late 1980s. Taiwan’s convoluted history and current troubled relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which claims Taiwan is “a renegade province” of the PRC, has complicated the world’s understanding of Taiwan. Many Western studies of Taiwan, primarily concerning its politics and economic development, have been conducted as an 1 Pinyin is employed in this dissertation as its Mandarin romanization system, though there are exceptions for names of places which have been officially transliterated differently, and for names of people who have been known to Western scholarship in different forms of romanization. In these cases, the more popular forms are used. All Chinese names are presented in the same order as they would appear in Chinese, surname first, given name last, unless the work is published in English, in which case the surname appears last. -
China Backpacking - Family in Hongkong - Padi & Anh-Dao's Beach Wedding in Australia
2014 February tototo May - China Backpacking - Family in Hongkong - Padi & Anh-Dao's Beach Wedding in Australia All reports and picture galleries (incl. Padi's and Evi's) can be accessed via www.xelliant.ch Background When we booked our flights on British Airways to Hongkong on 12 th January 2014 we had only one fixed target and date: Gobi's Wedding in Hongkong on 19 th of March. We booked for a period of 6 weeks within which everything else was still open. We could have visited Patrick and family in Perth or do a round trip to Philippines, Malaisia or elsewhere. Since Anh-Dao's mother had just visited them for several weeks and they themselves had plans to visit us in CH the coming summer, we chose finally to go once more backpacking in China. It was winter and so only the South would be a reasonable choice. Peggy had found out about the Hakka Tulou's in Fujian and we had never been in that region - so that was what we then did: a Tulou Walk for 1 week and a roundtrip further into Fujian. While we were in China, Patrick and Anh-Dao decided to get married on a lonely beach in the Australian wilderness at around Easter. We only learned these news when Patrick surprisingly turned up in Hongkong with the kids to attend Gobi's wedding. At that time I was still mentally exhausted from the China trip and so, at first, I could not face another big journey. A week after we had returned home to CH, Peggy felt very sad with the idea to miss out and so we booked almost instantly our flights to Perth... -
UK Home Office China Country Report April 2005
China Country Report APRIL 2005 Country Information and Policy Unit IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY DIRECTORATE HOME OFFICE, UNITED KINGDOM Contents 1. Scope of the Document 1.1–1.12 2. Geography 2.1–2.23 Background 2.1–2.4 Fujian Province 2.5–2.7 The Environment 2.8–2.11 Population 2.12–2.14 Naming Conventions 2.15–2.16 Languages 2.17–2.19 Dialects within Fujian 2.20–2.22 Pinyin Translation System 2.23 3. Economy 3.1–3.27 Background 3.1–3.2 Shadow Banks 3.3–3.4 Poverty 3.5–3.9 Great Western Development Plan 3.10–3.12 State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) 3.13–3.16 Unemployment 3.17–3.18 Currency 3.19–3.20 China, April 2005 Corruption 3.21–3.27 4. History 4.1–4.12 1949-1976: The Mao Zedong Era 4.1–4.2 1978-1989: Deng Xiaoping as Paramount 4.3 Leader Tiananmen Square Protests (1989) 4.4–4.6 Post-Tiananmen Square 4.7–4.12 - Jiang Zemin as Core Leader 4.7–4.9 - Hu Jiantao: Chairman of the Board 4.10–4.12 5. State Structures 5.1–5.136 The Constitution 5.1–5.5 Citizenship and Nationality 5.6–5.10 The Political System 5.11–5.24 The Leadership (Fourth Generation) 5.14–5.21 Village Committees 5.22–5.24 Judiciary 5.25–5.36 Criminal Procedures Law (1997) 5.29–5.30 Law on Administrative Appeals (1999) 5.31 State Compensation Law (1995) 5.32–3.33 State Secrets 5.34–3.36 Legal Rights/Detention 5.37–5.59 Petitions, Complaints and Appeals 5.40–5.48 Hitting an Official 5.49 Arrest Warrants 5.50–5.51 Death Penalty 5.52–5.58 Organ Harvesting 5.59 Internal Security 5.60–5.70 Police Accountability 5.61–5.64 Police Organisation 5.65–5.67 Police Corruption/Incompetence -
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Shanxi Courtyard Dwellings and Hakka Walled Village Zhang
Shanxi courtyard dwellings and Hakka walled village Zhang Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism 2021 Volume 3 Issue 2: 1-12 Review Article Shanxi Courtyard Dwellings and Hakka Walled Village: A Comparative Study of Wang Family Courtyard and Sam Tung Uk Walled Village Donia Zhang Neoland School of Chinese Culture, Canada Corresponding author: Donia Zhang, 11211 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. L4S 0E9. Email: [email protected] Citation: Zhang D, 2021, Shanxi Courtyard Dwellings and Hakka Walled Village: A Comparative Study of Wang Family Courtyard and Sam Tung Uk Walled Village. Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, 3(2): 1017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36922/jcau.v3i2.1017 ABSTRACT Through a historical research on two well-preserved vernacular Chinese dwellings: The Wang Family Courtyard in Shanxi and the Sam Tung Uk Walled Village in Hong Kong, this paper examines the cultural sustainability of architecture in China, and explores what factors have contributed to their success and decline, and what can be learned from their stories. In doing so, the article employs the analytical framework developed in the author’s previous works, that is, architectural form and space, and social and cultural dimensions of the cases. The findings reveal that ancestor worship was a common practice in the two families, hard work and traditional family values had resulted in their success. The abandonment of traditional values and schooling, coupled with social and military instability in the country, along with urban sprawl, destroyed the family unity and businesses, and ultimately caused the moving. The study has implications for the contemporary world beyond China. -
Touring Walled Villages – an Alternative Experience in East-Meet-West Cosmopolitan Hong Kong
Global Travel & Tourism Year 2002 Teacher & Student Programme Conference On ‘Heritage Tourism’ Aldo Papone Awards Nice, France Case Study Touring Walled Villages – An Alternative Experience in East-Meet-West Cosmopolitan Hong Kong Lok Sin Tong Young Ko Hsiao Lin Crishner Lam Secondary School Katie Chong Hong Kong Yen Li November 2002 Contents Introduction About This Case Study 3 About Heritage Tourism 5 About Hong Kong’s Heritage 7 Walled Villages as Heritage Attraction Presence & Role 11 Key Attractions 19 Issues & Discourse Tourist Experience 31 Operational Matters 39 Tourism Impact 44 Conclusion Walled Villages and the Cosmopolitan City 49 Common Concerns about Heritage Tourism 51 Appendix Methods of This Case Study 52 References & Acknowledgements 53 2 Introduction ¡ About This Case Study This case study attempts to examine the concept and practice of heritage tourism in the light of looking into a real focus example – walled villages in Hong Kong. The focus example has been selected on the basis of its current and potential qualities to become a typical aspect in the heritage tourism development of the represented region – Hong Kong (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China). The Regional Location of Hong Kong The logic of this study derives from the established concepts of heritage and 3 heritage tourism in the academic field, particularly those as taught in the curriculum of Travel and Tourism education programme in the represented region. It also makes frequent references to some definitions as documented or applied by authorities and bodies involved in the process of heritage protection, management and tourism operations.