Idealizing a Chinese Style
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Delin Lai, Idealizing a Chinese Style, https://architecturasinica.org/bibl/46QBHARS, https://www.zotero.org/groups/architecturasinica/items/46QBHARS, https://www.zotero.org/groups/2267085/items/46QBHARS, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 73, 2014, 61-90, The National Central Museum in Nanjing (1935&#x2013;48) was co-designed by the most distinguished architectural historian in twentieth-century China&#x2014;Liang Sicheng. It has long been regarded, however, as a representative work of &#x201c;conservative revivalism&#x201d; in modern Chinese architectural history. Idealizing a Chinese Style: Rethinking Early Writings on Chinese Architecture and the Design of the National Central Museum in Nanjing attempts to demonstrate the creativity of the design process, Lin Huiyin, and the architects&#x2019; ideal for a Chinese-style modern architecture. This ideal, Delin Lai argues, is profoundly rooted in the expectation of Chinese intellectuals for a &#x201c;Chinese renaissance,&#x201d; for which the Chinese architectural past was studied, evaluated, and more importantly, redefined through a dialogue with the contemporary architectural discourses and historiography formed in the West. The National Central Museum epitomizes this search for an ideal.

Lai, Delin. “Idealizing a Chinese Style.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 1 (2014): 61–90. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.61.

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Delin Lai, Idealizing a Chinese Style, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 1 (2014): 61–90, https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.1.61.