Abundance
Quantity Control
The City of Maximum Quantities
The City of Labour
Prudence
The Body in Safety and Danger
Degrees of Care
Antisepsis
Figuration
The Empire of Figures
Memory without Location
Colonies of Beauty and Violence
Li Shiqiao is Weedon Professor in Asian Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on history and theory of architecture, and architectural design studios. He studied architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing and obtained his PhD from AA School of Architecture and Birkbeck College, University of London. Li practiced architecture in London and Hong Kong, and initiated design proposals which were published and exhibited in journals and international exhibitions. Some of his design research and teaching is featured in Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong: 2014, edited with Esther Lorenz). His research agenda contribute towards an understanding of Asian architecture with its intellectual independence and influences. His theoretical writings appeared in major international peered reviewed journals, and his books include Understanding the Chinese City (London: Sage, 2014), Architecture and Modernization (Beijing: 2009) and Power and Virtue, Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1650-1730 (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). He was keynote speaker at University of Johannesburg, RMIT University, Melbourne University, Southeast University, Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and lectured widely in academic institutions throughout the world. He taught at AA School of Architecture, National University of Singapore and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Asked what was the difference between Japanese space and ‘western′
space, Maki declared emphatically: ‘Nothing!’ Tackling differences
in spatial thinking from inside both ‘western’ and Chinese
thinking, Li Shiqiao demonstrates how mental space, Chinese and
′western,′ is determined by culture.
*Professor Leon van Schaik*
Li Shiqiao reveals continuities between ancient Chinese city
formations and current urban organizations where others see only
rupture and chaos. No other work on the staggering urban explosion
in China so deftly displays the complexities of these current
formulations. Bringing an impressive array of disciplines into
conversation with each other, this book gestures toward what urban
studies could and should be.
*Professor Ryan Bishop*
Li Shiqiao has written the only book on the Chinese city that
captures at once the accelerated hypermodernity of the Shanghai
stock exchange and 2500 years of Daoist and Confucian culture. It
will be a classic.
*Professor Scott Lash*
If as Wittgenstein suggested, the limits of one’s language set the
limits of one’s world, what difference does it make to
conceptualise things in a different kind of word and to give an
alternative significance to numbers? In this book Li Shiqiao argues
that ideas taken for granted in the West and built into our
scientific world-view are by no means universal, while concepts
such as yin yang, four cardinal points, five phases, the ten
heavenly stems and twelve heavenly branches, allowed the ancient
Chinese to develop a different conception of space and time. This
is reflected in their architecture and town-planning, and must be
taken into account if we are to understand it.
*Professor Peter Blundell Jones*
The book not only provides a new framework and fresh thinking for
research on the Chinese city but also contributes to contemporary
urban studies by providing a model for cultural-based research on
urbanisation. Understanding the Chinese City is an excellent book.
It is suitable not only for academic researchers for research
purposes but also for readers interested in Chinese culture.
*Na Ta, East China Normal*
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