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	<title>Chinese Vernacular Architecture &#187; Traditional Alleyways</title>
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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>Disappearing vernacular architecture &#8211; Beijing Hutongs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I was back in Beijing for about six weeks this summer, and things were getting worse. Whole neighborhoods of hutongs (traditional Beijing alleyways) are still being demolished, ancient residences gone, while new building projects are under way. Below are some pictures I took outside of the Qianmen area (almost right in the heart of [...]]]></description>
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