The Tao of Architecture by Amos Ih Tiao Chang

By directly connecting recently found textile artifacts to specific references in China's vast historical literature, they illuminate the evolution of silk making and the driving social forces that have inspired the creation of innovative textiles through the millennia.ĭieter Kuhn is professor emeritus of sinology, University of Würzburg, Germany. The contributors explore the range of uses for silk, from the everyday to the sublime. In this magnificently researched and illustrated book, preeminent Western and Chinese scholars draw upon these spectacular discoveries to provide the most thorough account of the history of silk ever written.Įncyclopedic in breadth, the volume presents a chronological history of silk from a variety of perspectives, including archaeological, technological, art historical, and aesthetic. Over the past fifty years, archaeological explorations in China have unearthed a wealth of textile materials, some dating as far back as five thousand years. China’s Design Revolution offers an essential guide to the inextricably entwined stories of design, culture, and politics in China.įrom the Publisher. She then explores current award-winning projects in media, fashion, graphic, interior, and product design and examines the lifestyle and purchasing trends of the “fourth generation,” now in their teens and twenties. Justice describes and documents examples of Chinese design and innovation that range from ancient ceramics to communist propaganda posters. Influenced by Mao and Confucius, communism and capitalism, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, China’s third generation will drive the culture of design and innovation in China-and maybe the rest of the world. The goal is to stimulate economic growth-and to establish China as a global creative power. Justice explains that just as this “third generation” (post-Revolution, post–Cultural Revolution) reaches for self-expression, China’s government is making massive investments in design and innovation, supporting design and creative activities (including design education programs, innovation parks, and privatized companies) at the local and national levels. In China’s Design Revolution, Lorraine Justice maps the evolution of Chinese design and innovation. This generation, workers in their thirties and forties, has more freedom to create-and to consume-than their parents or grandparents. A “third generation” of the People’s Republic of China that came of age during China’s “opening up” period of the 1980s now strives for fame, fortune, and self expression. China is on the verge of a design revolution.

The Tao of Architecture by Amos Ih Tiao Chang