Chonqing - City of Ambition

Name: Chonqing - City of Ambition
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ISBN: 9789053306826

ISBN-10: 905330682X

ISBN-13: 9789053306826

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ferit Kuyas, Diana Edkins, Bill Kouwenhoven

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The Chinese city of Chonqing is little known in the West. Yet with its 32 million inhabitants, the city is twice as big as the Netherlands. Located on the Yangtze river in the province of Sichuan in southwestern China, it is one of Chinas most rapidly growing cities. Ferit Kuyas stayed in Chonqing on dozens of occasions for long periods and became totally fascinated by the megalomaniacal construction fervour he witnessed there, as well as its beauty. The almost ubiquitous haze naturally present in this region but intensified by large-scale pollution gave his work almost automatically an added layer of mystery. Kuyas focussed predominantly on the periphery of the city, where the enormity of…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Publisher: Mets en Schilt Uitgevers
Publication date: 11/23/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English