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		<title>Video of a house building in what appears to be Lijiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<title>&#8220;Ai Weiwei &#8216;Literally&#8217; Smashes China&#8217;s Traditions in Art and Architecture&#8221; &#8211; Really?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei, a contemporary Chinese artist, was widely reported to “literally” destroy China’s tradition in art in his 1995 act of dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BCE &#8211; 220 CE) urn and breaking it.  An article calls this performance “an iconoclastic act”. Ai was quoted as saying that this gesture is “powerful only because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography_Part IV: Historic Preservation/ Heritage Conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luo, Zhewen. Luo Zhewen lishi wenhua mingcheng yu gujianzhu baohu wenji/ 罗哲文历史文化名城与古建筑保护文集 [Essays on Preservation of Historic Cities and Ancient Architecture]
Fang, Ke. Contemporary Redevelopment in the Inner City of Beijing: Survey, Analysis and Investigation, Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe, 2000. 
Wu, Liangyong. Rehabilitating the Old City of Beijing: a Project in the Ju’er Hutong Neighborhood, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography_Part I: &#8220;Grammar Books&#8221; on Chinese Architecture, Dictionaries and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is far from being a completed bibliography, content- or style-wise. But I&#8217;m getting increasingly anxious to share whatever I have gathered so far with everyone. Please forgive me for (especially) the sloppy style; I found most of these titles online, and they come in all sort of styles. As for the content, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Suzhou&#8217;s Vernacular Architecture &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruan Yisan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his preservation work on the city of Suzhou, Professor Ruan sets out by providing a historic contextualization of the city, by examining its current economic, political, and social status, and the character of the city as determined by its historic and cultural significance in relation to its architectural heritage. In this case, the canal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Suzhou&#8217;s Vernacular Architecture &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Suzhou has a history stretching back more than 2,500 years, serving as the capital city of the Wu Kingdom as early as the Spring and Autumn Period (722- 481 B.C.E.) in 514 B.C.E.  It is situated on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Tai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Suzhou&#8217;s Vernacular Architecture &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This series of posts are taken from a paper I wrote earlier this year about the practical aspect of historic preservation of Chinese vernacular architecture. It takes the city of Suzhou as a case study, and focuses specifically on Professor Ruan Yisan&#8217;s work on the city.
Ruan Yisan (b. 1934) is former Professor of Urban Planning [...]]]></description>
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