This collection of essays on the architecture of modern China covers a period from 1729 to 2008, but focuses mainly on the 20th century. A distinctive feature of the book is a blending of 'critical' and 'historical' research, taking a long-range perspective transcending the current scene and the Maoist period.

This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an on-site self-completion questionnaire survey and a follow-up semi-structured interview carried out in a university in Central China. The study adopts the conceptual perspective of choice and constraint, which means that male and female final year undergraduates are able to make their own choices...

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Architecture is an innovative and critical reference work bringing together over 40 newly commissioned articles on major emerging themes. The contributors cover 'ancient' (dynastic) and 'modern' (republican, socialist and contemporary) developments, privileging an approach that emphasizes social production and the social use of buildings and spaces in various historical conditions.

The handbook connects with contemporary debates in the wider context of social science, cultural studies and political discourse, enlivening the study of Chinese...

Chinese Spatial Strategies presents a study of social spaces of the capital of Ming Qing China (1420-1911). Focusing on early Ming and early and middle Qing, it explores architectural, urban and geographical space of Beijing, in relation to issues of history, geopolitics, urban social structure, imperial rule and authority, symbolism, and aesthetic and existential experience. At once historical and theoretical, the work argues that there is a Chinese approach to spatial disposition which is strategic and holistic.