Remaking Beijing : Tiananmen Square and the creation of a political space / Wu Hung.

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Wu Hung, 1945-

Title & Author:

Remaking Beijing : Tiananmen Square and the creation of a political space / Wu Hung.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Description:

272 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-265) and index.
Tiananmen Square : a political history of monuments -- Face of authority : Tiananmen and Mao's Tiananmen portrait -- Displaying the people : National Day parades and exhibition architecture -- Monumentality of time : from Drum Tower to "Hong Kong Clock" -- Art of the square : from subject to site -- Coda : entering the new millennium.

Summary:

"Tiananmen Square is the most sacred space in Beijing - a site for Mao's monumental portrait, for museums, parades and, more recently, for violent demonstrations. Wu Hung grew up in Beijing and witnessed its transformation. In this lavishly illustrated work he offers a vivid, often personal, account of the struggle over Beijing's reinvention and offers new insights into the city's history. The final part of the book is devoted to paintings, photographs and performances by artists that take issue with the political and cultural meanings of Tiananmen Square and official efforts of repression."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0226360784 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226360782 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226360792 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226360799 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and history China Beijing.
Architecture Political aspects China Beijing.
Art and state China Beijing.
Architecture et histoire Chine Pékin.
Architecture Aspect politique Chine Pékin.
Art Politique gouvernementale Chine Pékin.
Architecture and history.
Architecture Political aspects.
Art and state.
Buildings.
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Tian'an Men (Beijing, China)
Beijing (China) Buildings, structures, etc.
Tian'anmen (Pékin, Chine)
Pékin (Chine) Constructions.
China Beijing.
China Beijing Tian'an Men.
Peking
Platz des Himmlischen Friedens
Peking Platz des Himmlischen Friedens.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240511
Call No.: BIB 170441
Status: External loan

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