Once Upon a China

by Cj Lim and Steve McCloy

Book Overview

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of 'Dream of the Red Mansion', 'Journey to the West ', 'The Water Margin', and 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', and are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain diverse voices and philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113822443X
• ISBN13: 9781138224438
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.8" x 7.2"