Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China by Bianca Bosker

Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China

Bianca Bosker

176 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced

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A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchi...

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