With nearly five millennia of architectural heritage, China boasts the longest continuous architectural lineage in history. A hundred years after the dawn of the 20 th century, the urban landscape of the world’s most populous country has now been transformed completely. The pivotal link between the ancient traditions of China’s imperial past and the high–rise, glass–clad, lust–for–wealth that characterises China’s 21 st –century architectural aspirations is a period of modernisation that revolutionised its architectural language and urban fabric. Despite the fact that the reach of Modernism was as effective in early 20 th –century China as elsewhere in the world, China remains conspicuously absent from written histories of Modernism – as Modernism does from written histories of China. Modernism in China confronts this by investigating China’s unique experience of Modernism, its remarkable variety, striking contradictions and recurrent paradoxes....

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