Object's details: What a Difference a Brick Makes? Transitions of Memory and Shanghai Shikumen Walls

Provider:Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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Title:
What a Difference a Brick Makes? Transitions of Memory and Shanghai Shikumen Walls
Creator:
Pawlik, Karolina
Description:
This essay is intended as an appreciation of an overlooked element of Chinese material culture: discarded blue bricks from demolished shikumen houses in Shanghai. It contemplates the concept and materiality of a wall from a unique perspective, combining insights from Chinese architecture history and scholarly tradition of appreciating stones. Combining scientific and poetic approaches, the author argues that these bricks can be contemplated analogically to ink landscape paintings and famous Dali dreamstones. The author uses these clay objects as a starting point to reflect on the rapid transformation of Chinese cities and complex relationship between enduring tradition and ongoing modernization.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
Date:
2021.10.04
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies]; Vol. 18 No. 2 (2021): Walls. Presentations: Tomasz Bąk; 1-12;
Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne; Tom 18 Nr 2 (2021): Mury. Prezentacje: Tomasz Bąk; 1-12;
2353-0928;
2084-0772
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/12460/9706
Subject:
brick;
Shanghai;
ink painting;
dreamstone;
longtang
Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/12460
Data provider:
Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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