Original Copies by Bianca Bosker - 9780824836061

Original CopiesArchitectural Mimicry in Contemporary China\nAuthor(s): Bianca Bosker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824836061, 978-0824836061\nSynopsis\nA 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elyses Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queens Guard patrols Shanghais Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot Chinese cities from Fuyang to Shenzhen. These examples are but a sampling of Chinas most popular and startling architectural movement: the construction of monumental themed communities that replicate towns and cities in the West.\n\nOriginal Copies presents the first definitive chronicle of this remarkable phenomenon in which entire townships appear to have been airlifted from their historic and geographic foundations in Europe and the Americas, and .