How Long to Read Understanding the Chinese City

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding the Chinese City?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Understanding the Chinese City by Li Shiqiao

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"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, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton "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, RMIT University "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 Goldsmiths College, University of London This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by: examining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing system analyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against real and imagined dangers exploring the meanings of labour, and the resultant numerical and financial hierarchies demonstrating how actual structures bring into visual being the conceptions of numerical distributions, safety networks, and aesthetic orders. Understanding the Chinese City elegantly traces a thread between ancient Chinese city formations and current urban organizations, revealing hidden continuities that show how instrumental the past has been in forming the present. It contextualizes Chinese urban experiences in relation to familiar intellectual landmarks. Rather than becoming obstacles to change, ancient practices have become effective strategies of adaptation under radically new terms.

How long is Understanding the Chinese City?

Understanding the Chinese City by Li Shiqiao is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding the Chinese City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Understanding the Chinese City aloud.

What Reading Level is Understanding the Chinese City?

Understanding the Chinese City is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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