{"product_id":"9789811557934","title":"Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction","description":"\u003ch1\u003eContemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eNing, Ou\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of writing will be of interest to artists, China scholars, architects, and the cultural community at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-10-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789811557934\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-981-15-5791-0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 442\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589578055820,"sku":"9789811557934","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789811557934.jpg?v=1776789833","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789811557934","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}