Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
A Complicated Birth
The ignominy that began in 1839, following Britain's intercontinental drug dealing that precipitated the First Opium War (1839‐42), was reaching its zenith by 1904, the year of Luke's birth. Luke's birthplace of Hong Kong was largely sheltered from the tempest across the border. A British colony since the 1840s, the craggy island off the coast of Canton was symptomatic of China's unique condition‐no other country on earth was as diversely carved up and exploited by outsiders. In the early 1920s, architecture was still largely the preserve of foreigners in China and remained a relatively mysterious profession among prospective Chinese students, whether resident in the colonies, treaty ports or Chinese‐administered areas. The tiny fraction of Hong Kong's population that was non‐Chinese formed the city's elite in a precipitous hierarchy‐with the British on top and other foreign nationals on the rung below.
A Complicated Birth
The ignominy that began in 1839, following Britain's intercontinental drug dealing that precipitated the First Opium War (1839‐42), was reaching its zenith by 1904, the year of Luke's birth. Luke's birthplace of Hong Kong was largely sheltered from the tempest across the border. A British colony since the 1840s, the craggy island off the coast of Canton was symptomatic of China's unique condition‐no other country on earth was as diversely carved up and exploited by outsiders. In the early 1920s, architecture was still largely the preserve of foreigners in China and remained a relatively mysterious profession among prospective Chinese students, whether resident in the colonies, treaty ports or Chinese‐administered areas. The tiny fraction of Hong Kong's population that was non‐Chinese formed the city's elite in a precipitous hierarchy‐with the British on top and other foreign nationals on the rung below.
A Complicated Birth
Denison, Edward (Autor:in) / Ren, Guang Yu (Autor:in)
Luke Him Sau Architect ; 12-35
21.04.2014
24 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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