From Modern to Contemporary: Cataloging Recent Histories of Architecture and Urbanism in Asia

A Book Review of Exporting Chinese Architecture: History, Issues and “One Belt One Road”

“…The first two decades of the twentieth-first century have witnessed the growing scholarly attention paid to the history of transnational architectural production, which demonstrated the dynamic flow of people, ideas, goods, and technical know-how, especially from the Second World to the Third World during the Cold War [1][2][3][4][5]. Exporting Chinese Architecture is the first English monograph on the subject of China-aided architecture built in the rest of the world, providing international readers with a window through which to understand the contexts, practices, and consequences of China's engagement with the globe through material constructions.…”