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CTBUH Journal
About the Council The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, based at the Illinois Institute of Technology in CTBUH Journal Chicago and with a China offi ce at Tongji International Journal on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat University in Shanghai, is an international not-for-profi t organization supported by architecture, engineering, planning, development, and construction professionals. Founded in 1969, the Council’s mission is to disseminate multi- Tall buildings: design, construction, and operation | 2014 Issue IV disciplinary information on tall buildings and sustainable urban environments, to maximize the international interaction of professionals involved Case Study: One Central Park, Sydney in creating the built environment, and to make the latest knowledge available to professionals in High-Rise Housing: The Singapore Experience a useful form. The Emergence of Asian Supertalls The CTBUH disseminates its fi ndings, and facilitates business exchange, through: the Achieving Six Stars in Sydney publication of books, monographs, proceedings, and reports; the organization of world congresses, Ethical Implications of international, regional, and specialty conferences The Skyscraper Race and workshops; the maintaining of an extensive website and tall building databases of built, under Tall Buildings in Numbers: construction, and proposed buildings; the Unfi nished Projects distribution of a monthly international tall building e-newsletter; the maintaining of an Talking Tall: Ben van Berkel international resource center; the bestowing of annual awards for design and construction excellence and individual lifetime achievement; the management of special task forces/working groups; the hosting of technical forums; and the publication of the CTBUH Journal, a professional journal containing refereed papers written by researchers, scholars, and practicing professionals. -
Globalization and Shanghai Model: a Retrospective and Prospective Analysis
Journal of International and Global Studies Volume 4 Number 1 Article 5 11-1-2012 Globalization and Shanghai Model: A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis Linsun Cheng Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/jigs Part of the Anthropology Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Cheng, Linsun Ph.D. (2012) "Globalization and Shanghai Model: A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis," Journal of International and Global Studies: Vol. 4 : No. 1 , Article 5. Available at: https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/jigs/vol4/iss1/5 This Essay is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Digital Commons@Lindenwood University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of International and Global Studies by an authorized editor of Digital Commons@Lindenwood University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Globalization and Shanghai Model: A Retrospective and Prospective Analysis Linsun Cheng University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth [email protected] AAbstractbstractAbstract Intended to shed light on the debate on the results of globalization and provide better understanding of the influences of globalization upon China as well as the world, this article traces the history of Shanghai’s economic globalization over the past 170 years since 1843 and demonstrates the benefits and problems Shanghai received from (or connected to) its -
Suburban Development in Shanghai: a Case of Songjiang
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING Suburban Development in Shanghai: A Case of Songjiang Jie Shen Supervisor: Professor Fulong Wu Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2011 ABSTRACT Since 2000, a new round of suburbanisation characterised by mixed-use clustered development has begun to unfold in China. This research aims to explore the dynamics of recent suburban growth in China and also provide an empirical case for enriching suburban theory. It is held that suburbanisation in China in its current form is by no means a spontaneous process, but results from capitalism’s creation of a new space to facilitate accumulation. Based on this view, the study examines the underlying forces of contemporary suburban growth with regard to three questions: what is the role of suburbanisation in China’s contemporary capital accumulation regime? How are the suburbs developed under coalitions of different actors? And how is suburban development shaped by demand-side actors? The study is founded on an intensive case study of Shanghai and one of its suburban districts, Songjiang. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are used. Firsthand data from interviews and a questionnaire survey and a wide variety of secondary data were collected, providing a rich fund of knowledge for the research. While similar forms and functions to (post)-suburban settlements that have recently emerged in Western countries are found in Chinese suburbs, suburbanisation through new town development in China is a strategy of capital accumulation in response to a range of new conditions specific to China’s local context. New towns deal with the recentralisation of both fiscal and land development powers on the one hand, and accommodate the increasing housing demands of a diverse labour force on the other. -
Finding Structural Solutions by Connecting Towers
ctbuh.org/papers Title: Finding Structural Solutions by Connecting Towers Authors: Andrew Luong, Director, Arup Michael Kwok, Director, Arup Subjects: Architectural/Design Structural Engineering Keywords: Cost Skybridges Publication Date: 2012 Original Publication: CTBUH Journal, 2012 Issue III Paper Type: 1. Book chapter/Part chapter 2. Journal paper 3. Conference proceeding 4. Unpublished conference paper 5. Magazine article 6. Unpublished © Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat / Andrew Luong; Michael Kwok Research: China’s Unique Linked Towers Finding Structural Solutions by Connecting Towers A study of a number of linked high-rise towers in China finds designs anchored by innovative, unimposing structural solutions, which address issues of costs and buildability. More than simply making a dramatic visual statement, the links play an integral role in the buildings’ functions. Linked towers are still a rarity in the design of solving a number of problems and offering skyscrapers. Perhaps the most famous is the new opportunities in the design and usage of Andrew Luong Michael Kwok Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, but the buildings including: the linkage in the Petronas served as more Authors than just an architectural gesture. Structurally providing better masterplanning and Andrew Luong, Director Michael Kwok, Director there is little purpose to the skybridge, massing relationship in the site and to the Arup although the link it is an integral part of the neighboring architecture; 39/F–41/F Huaihai Plaza fire evacuation strategy and allows facilities to effective use of a limited and constrained 1045 Huaihai Road Shanghai 200031 be shared between the two towers over those site; China several levels, in addition to offering an increasing floor plate size; t: +86 21 6126 2888 observation deck, a popular attraction. -
The Danger of Deconsolidation Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk Ronald F
July 2016, Volume 27, Number 3 $14.00 The Danger of Deconsolidation Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk Ronald F. Inglehart The Struggle Over Term Limits in Africa Brett L. Carter Janette Yarwood Filip Reyntjens 25 Years After the USSR: What’s Gone Wrong? Henry E. Hale Suisheng Zhao on Xi Jinping’s Maoist Revival Bojan Bugari¡c & Tom Ginsburg on Postcommunist Courts Clive H. Church & Adrian Vatter on Switzerland Daniel O’Maley on the Internet of Things Delegative Democracy Revisited Santiago Anria Catherine Conaghan Frances Hagopian Lindsay Mayka Juan Pablo Luna Alberto Vergara and Aaron Watanabe Zhao.NEW saved by BK on 1/5/16; 6,145 words, including notes; TXT created from NEW by PJC, 3/18/16; MP edits to TXT by PJC, 4/5/16 (6,615 words). AAS saved by BK on 4/7/16; FIN created from AAS by PJC, 4/25/16 (6,608 words). PGS created by BK on 5/10/16. XI JINPING’S MAOIST REVIVAL Suisheng Zhao Suisheng Zhao is professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. He is executive director of the univer- sity’s Center for China-U.S. Cooperation and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China. When Xi Jinping became paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 2012, some Chinese intellectuals with liberal lean- ings allowed themselves to hope that he would promote the cause of political reform. The most optimistic among them even thought that he might seek to limit the monopoly on power long claimed by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). -
An Enchanted Modern: Urban Cultivation in Shanghai
IQAS Vol. 51 / 2020 1–2, pp. 223–242 An Enchanted Modern: Urban Cultivation in Shanghai Anna Greenspan, Francesca Tarocco Abstract China is in the midst of the fastest and largest process of urbanisation in history. Alongside the dynamism of the region’s hyperdense cities, however, are alarming levels of air pollution, recur- rent stories of toxic food, contaminated waterways and intensifying popular protests concern- ing polluting factories and plants. Issues surrounding a sustainable urban ecology have thus become paramount in the construction of Asia’s metropolitan future. This paper, which focuses particularly on the Shanghai region, suggests that the ideas and practices of “cultivation” might be of value in the creation and imagination of a future ecological metropolis. We examine self-cultivation concretely, as a set of situated embodied practices in specific places and specific historical conditions. We also explore the abstract conceptual idea, by looking at how the modern philosopher Mou Zongsan articulated the idea of “cultivation” as a guide for life. Ultimately, we are interested in how the embodied cultural practices of cultivation can be harnessed as a strategy of re-enchantment, with the power to reconfigure urban nature in the Chinese mega- city of the 21st century. Keywords: cultivation, Shanghai, modernity, practice, urbanism 1. An enchanted modern: urban cultivation At 8am in Shanghai’s Nanjing Road, the giant commercial metropolis pulses with the frenzied congestion of early morning rush hour. In a central park right outside Jing’an Temple, an altogether different urban rhythm greets the day. Inside Jing’an Park the city is alive with the practice of ritual. -
Book of Abstracts
PICES Seventeenth Annual Meeting Beyond observations to achieving understanding and forecasting in a changing North Pacific: Forward to the FUTURE North Pacific Marine Science Organization October 24 – November 2, 2008 Dalian, People’s Republic of China Contents Notes for Guidance ...................................................................................................................................... v Floor Plan for the Kempinski Hotel......................................................................................................... vi Keynote Lecture.........................................................................................................................................vii Schedules and Abstracts S1 Science Board Symposium Beyond observations to achieving understanding and forecasting in a changing North Pacific: Forward to the FUTURE......................................................................................................................... 1 S2 MONITOR/TCODE/BIO Topic Session Linking biology, chemistry, and physics in our observational systems – Present status and FUTURE needs .............................................................................................................................. 15 S3 MEQ Topic Session Species succession and long-term data set analysis pertaining to harmful algal blooms...................... 33 S4 FIS Topic Session Institutions and ecosystem-based approaches for sustainable fisheries under fluctuating marine resources .............................................................................................................................................. -
Preliminary Pages
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Ascending the Hall of Great Elegance: the Emergence of Drama Research in Modern China A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in History by Hsiao-Chun Wu 2016 © Copyright by Hsiao-Chun Wu 2016 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Ascending the Hall of Great Elegance: the Emergence of Drama Research in Modern China by Hsiao-Chun Wu Doctor of Philosophy in History University of California, Los Angeles, 2016, Professor Andrea Sue Goldman, Chair This dissertation captures a critical moment in China’s history when the interest in opera transformed from literati divertissement into an emerging field of scholarly inquiry. Centering around the activities and writings of Qi Rushan (1870-1962), who played a key role both in reshaping the modes of elite involvement in opera and in systematic knowledge production about opera, this dissertation explores this transformation from a transitional generation of theatrical connoisseurs and researchers in early twentieth-century China. It examines the many conditions and contexts in the making of opera—and especially Peking opera—as a discipline of modern humanistic research in China: the transnational emergence of Sinology, the vibrant urban entertainment market, the literary and material resources from the past, and the bodies and !ii identities of performers. This dissertation presents a critical chronology of the early history of drama study in modern China, beginning from the emerging terminology of genre to the theorization and the making of a formal academic discipline. Chapter One examines the genre-making of Peking Opera in three overlapping but not identical categories: temporal, geographical-political, and aesthetic. -
Netizens, Nationalism, and the New Media by Jackson S. Woods BA
Online Foreign Policy Discourse in Contemporary China: Netizens, Nationalism, and the New Media by Jackson S. Woods B.A. in Asian Studies and Political Science, May 2008, University of Michigan M.A. in Political Science, May 2013, The George Washington University A Dissertation submitted to The Faculty of The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy January 31, 2017 Bruce J. Dickson Professor of Political Science and International Affairs The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University certifies that Jackson S. Woods has passed the Final Examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy as of September 6, 2016. This is the final and approved form of the dissertation. Online Foreign Policy Discourse in Contemporary China: Netizens, Nationalism, and the New Media Jackson S. Woods Dissertation Research Committee: Bruce J. Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Dissertation Director Henry J. Farrell, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Committee Member Charles L. Glaser, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Committee Member David L. Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Committee Member ii © Copyright 2017 by Jackson S. Woods All rights reserved iii Acknowledgments The author wishes to acknowledge the many individuals and organizations that have made this research possible. At George Washington University, I have been very fortunate to receive guidance from a committee of exceptional scholars and mentors. As committee chair, Bruce Dickson steered me through the multi-year process of designing, funding, researching, and writing a dissertation manuscript. -
Prohibition of Jiatou Zaju in the Ming Dynasty and the Portrayal
PROHIBITION OF JIATOU ZAJU IN THE MING DYNASTY AND THE PORTRAYAL OF THE EMPEROR ON STAGE Tian Yuan Tan (Chen Tianyuan) INTRODUCTION: THE TERMS JIATOU AND JIATOU ZAJU Portraying the emperor on stage was not at all uncommon in the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). This can be gathered from the fact that the emperor role, designated by the term jiatou, is one of the cus- tomary role types in Yuan drama.' According to the Qinglouji (The Green Bower Collection), a valuable collection of short biograph- ical notes on performers in the Yuan dynasty compiled around 1364, jiatou is one of the waijiao (extra roles) in zaju besides the fe- male and male lead roles, clan (female) and mo (male): [These extra role types] include the jiatou, the beauty pining in her boudoir, the bawd, the coquettish young girl, the high official, the poor, the brigand, the government servant, and those categories concerning immortals and Taoist deliver- ance, and family matters.'- The term "jiatou" originally referred to the throne of the emperor which an old eunuch would carry in front of the emperor's carriage on an imperial tour of inspection.' Since jiatou was an important insignia of an imperial tour, the modern Chinese scholar Sun Kaidi suggests that the term "jiatou zaju" must therefore involve at least a certain scene of the emperor going out in a carriage, as found in Act Three of both Hangong qiu (Autumn in the Palace of Han) and Tian Yuan Tan, "Prohibition of Jiatou Zaju in the Ming Dynasty and the Portrayal of the Emperor on Stage," MING STUDIES, 49, pp. -
A RESOURCE for DANCE EDUCATION Written in the Words of Kate Prince
A RESOURCE FOR DANCE EDUCATION Written in the words of Kate Prince. By: Rachel Howes Teacher of Dance @MissRHowes1. Published by: ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company. www.zoonation.co.uk @ZooNationUK CONTENTS ABOUT THE COMPANY, ABOUT KATE PRINCE & A MESSAGE FROM KATE 3 SYNOPSIS & PURPOSE OF THE SHOW 5 CAST, CREATIVES & CREW 6 THEMES, ISSUES & CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES 7 ABOUT THE CREATION OF SOME LIKE IT HIP HOP – FROM PAGE TO STAGE 8 COLLABORATING WITH OTHER CREATIVES 10 PICTURE POSTCARD TECHNIQUE 11 SCENE SYNOPSIS 12 A DEEP DIVE INTO FIVE SIGNIFICANT SCENES 13 INITIAL THOUGHTS TASK 15 INTERVIEW WITH SET DESIGNER, BEN STONES & A DESIGN BASED WORKSHOP 16 INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER, DJ WALDE & A MUSICAL STIMULUS WORKSHOP 19 INTERVIEWS WITH CAST MEMBERS, BRADLEY CHARLES AND CARRIE-ANNE INGROUILLE 21 PRACTICAL EXPLORATION WORKSHOP 23 CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP 24 FURTHER WORKSHOP OPPORTUNITIES 26 USEFUL RESOURCES & FINAL MESSAGES 27 2 ABOUT ZOONATION : THE KATE PRINCE COMPANY ZooNation was founded by Kate Prince in 2002 and is best known for its work in the theatre, creating full length narrative dance productions influenced in equal parts by musical theatre, Hip Hop culture and music. ZooNation’s work is fortified with an extensive programme of engagement and talent development, working with different communities and young artists to expand their skills, knowledge and confidence in our style of dance theatre. For further information please visit: zoonation.co.uk/explore/company-biography/ 3 ABOUT KATE PRINCE Kate Prince MBE Choreographer, Director & Writer Kate is artistic director of ZooNation, which she founded in 2002. She is an associate artist at The Old Vic and at Sadler’s Wells, where ZooNation is also a Resident Company. -
The Ambivalent Power of the Internet in Chinese Democratisation
The Liberating Potential of the Web?: The Ambivalent Power of the Internet in Chinese Democratisation Junyue Tan MASTER OF ARTS (THESIS ONLY) December 2017 School of Social and Political Science Faculty of Arts The University of Melbourne ORCID: 0000-0002-9279-6311 Abstract To what extent does the internet contribute to democratisation in China? This thesis tests competing answers to this question. It does so by critically bridging the views that frame the internet as a revolutionary force (or an inherently liberating power) and the views that dismiss its potential to democratise authoritarian states. The study contributes to the academic discourse on the liberating potential of the internet. Specifically, does the internet act as a revolutionary power which can guarantee a transition to democracy in China or bring about fundamental, unprecedented democratic processes? And if it does not, then, how does the internet promote and, at the same time, hamper democratisation in China? To better understand such mechanisms, it is necessary to examine the dynamic power competition between the government and the people over ideological control/independence. For its main case study, the thesis examines how the proliferation of the internet in China triggers fears of the government about the so-called Westernisation. This concern has emerged since 2011 and reached a peak in 2014. Being embedded in the Chinese context and analysed from its historical evolution, this concern about Westernisation suggests that the government is in fact worrying about its legitimacy and control over ideology. Focussing on this case study and using a methodology of comparative historical analysis, the thesis argues that the role of the internet in fostering democracy in China is not revolutionary but essentially an ambivalent one.