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SUMMARY:Building China: landscapes of change
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DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to build a country? Beyond its dams\, roads
 \, housing developments and rapidly changing cities\, China's landscapes
  are shaped by the everyday lives of the people who inhabit them.\n\nBui
 lding China: Landscapes of Change brings together paintings\, photograph
 s\, drawings\, films and objects spanning more than seventy years of tra
 nsformation. From artistic visions of socialist reconstruction in the 19
 50s and a British architect's photographs of China in 1975 to contempora
 ry research into streets\, markets\, parks and infrastructure\, the exhi
 bition explores the relationship between what is planned and built and h
 ow places are actually lived in.\n\nThe works take visitors from the cha
 nging neighbourhoods of Shanghai to the bustling food markets of Nanjing
 \, the public parks of Shenzhen and the layered transport infrastructure
  of Chongqing. They reveal how new developments reshape established ways
  of living\, but also how people continue to make places their own throu
 gh work\, exchange\, care and everyday encounters.\n\nRather than presen
 ting China's transformation as a straightforward story of high-speed urb
 anisation and development\, the exhibition offers different perspectives
  on the making of its landscapes. It invites us to look beyond monumenta
 l construction and consider the less visible relationships and practices
  through which spaces acquire meaning\, communities sustain themselves a
 nd the work of building continues.\n\nThe exhibition is part of the twen
 tieth anniversary celebrations of the Confucius Institute at The Univers
 ity of Manchester.\n\nContributors include Rujin Wang\, Ziqiu Ren\, Qiwe
 i Peng\, Xin Li and Deljana Iossifova from the the Urban Studies Lab\, a
 mong others. 
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Holden Gallery\, Manchester Metropolitan University
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