Modern Chinese Historiography


With an enormous and enduring legacy of recording events, China, according to Liang Qichao, never produced “history”. This intriguing provocation of a paradox is the focus of this set of papers, casting light on the complex twentieth-century unfolding of China’s coming to terms with its own architectural past at a time of violent upheavals. A new architectural history was born in the process.




Architecture and Modern Thought

Modernity in China


Reconstituting the Chinese Building Tradition

Research China


Writing a Modern Architectural History



Collaborations


School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore
AA Asia Singapore
Asian Urban Lab