Political memorials remain being a developing chapter of the current heritage boom in China,with evolving heritage narratives that resonate with inner political changes.Analysing the Site of the First National Congres...Political memorials remain being a developing chapter of the current heritage boom in China,with evolving heritage narratives that resonate with inner political changes.Analysing the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai,I argue that the search for the'origins'of the place is rooted in authorised heritage discourses that motivate constant arrangements of heritage conservation and architectural and urban design around Shanghai's vernacular residential type:the shikumen.Using qualitative methods like architectural analysis,site observation and semi-structured interviews,this paper analyses the sublimation of the Shanghai shikumen through three different stages,put in place at the site of the First National Congress since 1949 until today.Doing so,the paper puts forward the argument that interventions at the site do not follow a straightforward route to appropriate the shikumen type,but one that is subject to varying political orientations within the Party-State.Also,that politically motivated attention towards the vernacular origins of the site stresses the rising consideration towards the historic built environment in China,and related processes of heritage conservation and monumentalisation.展开更多
Apopular dish in Shanghai is soaked rice—cooked rice reheated in boiling water. It is usually eaten together with pickles, and so cannot be considered particularly upscale or nutritious. However, a recent survey of t...Apopular dish in Shanghai is soaked rice—cooked rice reheated in boiling water. It is usually eaten together with pickles, and so cannot be considered particularly upscale or nutritious. However, a recent survey of the social and economic situation in urban Shanghai indicated that 66 percent of the people in Shanghai eat soaked rice and pickles for breakfast everyday. Soaked rice is a typical food among Shanghai’s展开更多
How would you move an entire 7,500‐tonne,4,030‐square‐meter,and 100‐year‐old Shikumen brick building complex so that you could build a multi‐level underground shopping center,parking lot and subway connections u...How would you move an entire 7,500‐tonne,4,030‐square‐meter,and 100‐year‐old Shikumen brick building complex so that you could build a multi‐level underground shopping center,parking lot and subway connections under it?The answer is robots.That's exactly what engineers did in Shanghai.The Huayanli Shikumen complex—a mix of Western row houses and Chinese courtyards,which stands as Shanghai's largest and best‐preserved Shikumen complexes—was built in the 1920s and 1930s.It had to be moved temporarily to make space for the 53,000‐square‐meter underground project.展开更多
文摘Political memorials remain being a developing chapter of the current heritage boom in China,with evolving heritage narratives that resonate with inner political changes.Analysing the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai,I argue that the search for the'origins'of the place is rooted in authorised heritage discourses that motivate constant arrangements of heritage conservation and architectural and urban design around Shanghai's vernacular residential type:the shikumen.Using qualitative methods like architectural analysis,site observation and semi-structured interviews,this paper analyses the sublimation of the Shanghai shikumen through three different stages,put in place at the site of the First National Congress since 1949 until today.Doing so,the paper puts forward the argument that interventions at the site do not follow a straightforward route to appropriate the shikumen type,but one that is subject to varying political orientations within the Party-State.Also,that politically motivated attention towards the vernacular origins of the site stresses the rising consideration towards the historic built environment in China,and related processes of heritage conservation and monumentalisation.
文摘Apopular dish in Shanghai is soaked rice—cooked rice reheated in boiling water. It is usually eaten together with pickles, and so cannot be considered particularly upscale or nutritious. However, a recent survey of the social and economic situation in urban Shanghai indicated that 66 percent of the people in Shanghai eat soaked rice and pickles for breakfast everyday. Soaked rice is a typical food among Shanghai’s
文摘How would you move an entire 7,500‐tonne,4,030‐square‐meter,and 100‐year‐old Shikumen brick building complex so that you could build a multi‐level underground shopping center,parking lot and subway connections under it?The answer is robots.That's exactly what engineers did in Shanghai.The Huayanli Shikumen complex—a mix of Western row houses and Chinese courtyards,which stands as Shanghai's largest and best‐preserved Shikumen complexes—was built in the 1920s and 1930s.It had to be moved temporarily to make space for the 53,000‐square‐meter underground project.
