Utopia in Practice: Bishan Project and Rural Reconstruction 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811557903,9789811557910,981155790X,9811557918

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 9811557918
• ISBN-13: 9789811557910
• Author: Ou Ning
  

This book is a collection of texts on one of China’s boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan. The Bishan Project (2011-2016) was a rural reconstruction project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. The writings describe and criticize the social problems caused by China’s over-loading urbanization process and starts a a contemporary agrarianism and agritopianism discourse to resist the modernism and developmentalism doctrine which dominated China for more than a century, answering a global desire for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today’s environmental and political crises.This practical utopian commune project ran for 6 years and caused a national debate on rural issues in China, when it was invited to be exhibited and presented abroad. This collection of writing will be of interest to artists, China scholars, architects, and the cultural community at large.

Table contents:

1. Pastoral Youth

2. Huizhou Fieldwork

3. Blueprints

4. Bishan Harvestival

5. Reality and History

6. Yixian International Photo Festival

7. Deep Plowing

8. Controversies

9. Introspection

10. The School of Tillers

11. New Commons

12. Handicraft, Design, and Art

13. Food, Ecology, and Education

14. City and Countryside

15. Utopian Dreams

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