China crossroads of modernism East-West encounters in 20th century architecture - Architektur global modern: China - Knotenpunkte der Moderne (2022 : Berlin, Veranstaltung); Architektur global modern: China - Knotenpunkte der Moderne (Berlin : 2022) 2022); Flierl, Thomas; Kögel, Eduard; Huber, Robert K. (Berlin : Lukas Verlag, 2025)
This book deals with crossroads of international modernism resulting from Sino-German architectural relations int he 20th century. On the one hand, the focal points are derived from German history: China - especially the internationally administered city of Shanghai - was an important place of emigration during the Nazi dictatorship in Germany and, on the other hand, the post-war development was characterised by the division of Germany and the incongruent relations between the two German states that have existed since 1949 and the Peoples's Republic of China and Taiwan. Conversely, Chinese development also determined this relationship: firstly, theh orientation towards European, including German modernism, such as the Bauhaus in national bourgeois China before and during the Second World War The founding of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 after the liberation war against Japan and the subsequent People's Liberation War, the temporary alliance with the Soviet Union in the 1950s, the "Grea Leap Forward" (1958-1961) and the "Cultural Revolution" (1966-1976) mark the era of Mao Zedong, which was replaced by Deng Xiaoping's policy of the "Four Modernisations" from 1978 onwards and has since ushered in China's rise to become a world power. This publication has made an important contribution to questions of exchange between East and West, between the two German states and the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. It becomes clear that the hard boundaries between ideologies and forms of government were undermined in the exchange and mutual professional appreciation. The influence that the ideas of modernism and explicitly of the Bauhaus gained int he 1940s had not yet been presented in this form and shows that there are still blind spots in the research landscape, which can now be explored in greater depth in further dialogues.
Enthält Literaturangaben; "The publication represents the proceedings of the symposium Architecture global modern: China - crossroads of modernism at the BHROX bauhaus reuse in cooperation with Hermann Henselmann Foundation, in the framework of the Triennale der Moderne 2022 in Berlin." (Impressum)
Keywords: Konferenzschrift