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| Title: | Assistant Professor - Humanities |
| Office: | LA 121 |
| Email: | sliang@uvu.edu |
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Education
Ph.D. 2006, Art History,
MA. History of Architecture, 1994, Department of Architecture,
Professional Interests
Architecture and urbanism in modern and contemporary
Selected Publications
Authored books
Remaking
Mapping Modernity in
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415569132/
Chinese version of Mapping Modernity in Shanghai (Beijing: The Commercial Press, forthcoming in 2014)
Journal articles (refereed)
“Planning and Its Discontents: Contradictions and Continuities in Remaking China’s Great Cities, 1950-2010,” Urban History, 40.3 (2013).
“最后的先锋派：国际情境主义和建筑电讯派” (Last Avant-gardes: Situationist International and Archigram), 《建筑师》(Architects) 154 (2011): 5-10.
“The Expo Garden and Heterotopia: Staging Shanghai between Postcolonial and (Inter)national Global Power,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 9, Issue 38 No 1 (2011). http://www.japanfocus.org/-Samuel-Liang/3602
“Property-Driven Urban Change in Post-Socialist Shanghai: Reading the Television Series Woju,” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 39, no.4 (2010): 3-28.
“上海弄堂的革命與懷舊: 从中共‘一大’會址到新天地” (The Revolution and Nostalgia of Shanghai Longtang: From the CCP First Congress Memorial to Xintiandi),《台灣社會研究季刊》(Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies) 76 (2009): 393-416.
“Where the Courtyard Meets the Street: Spatial Culture of the Li Neighborhoods, Shanghai, 1870-1900,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no.4 (2008): 482-503.
“Amnesiac Monument, Nostalgic Fashion: Shanghai’s New Heaven and Earth,” Wasafiri 23, no.3 (special issue on Chinese writings, 2008): 47-55.
“Ephemeral Households, Marvelous Things: Business, Gender, and Material Culture in Flowers of Shanghai,” Modern China 33, no.3 (2007): 377-418.
“High-Tech Cities and the Primitive Jungle: Visionary Urbanism in Europe and Japan of the 1960s,” International Studies in Philosophy 36, no.2 (2004): 45-66.
Other journal articles
“Asia, Faraway or Next Door: Reflections on AAS 2010 and Downtown
“The Past and Present of the CCP First Congress Memorial,
“The Fluctuation of Yin Yang: A Sex Model in Chinese Philosophy and Medicine,” American Philosophical Association Newsletters 2, no.2 (2003): 17-21.
Book Reviews
Review of The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric. By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, and Thomas Kvan. London: Routledge, 2010. Built Environment 37, no.3 (2011): 370-72.
Review of Cosmopolitan Publics: Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial
Review of Lifestyle and Entertainment in
Review of Global
Review of Allegorical Architecture: Living Myth and Architectonics in
Selected Presentations
Dec 10, 2011 Opening Week Symposium, Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale
“Contradictions in Shenzhen Urbanism: Linear Sprawl, Heterotopias, and the Central Axis”
Apr 29, 2011 School of Urban Planning and Architecture, Tongji
“晚清上海城市建筑及空间文化的现代性” (Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture, 1853-1898)
Oct 26, 2010 Royal Asiatic Society
“Mapping Modernity in
May 14, 2009 Cornerhouse,
Apr 21, 2009
“‘Beautiful Pictures on a Blank Sheet of Paper’: Utopian Planning and Urban Sprawl in Contemporary
Mar 2011 Shenzhen+
“The Urban Sprawl of 'Beautiful Pictures on a Blank Sheet': Contradictions in Chinese Urbanism”
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Sept 2010 張愛玲誕辰九十周年國際學術研討會 (Symposium for the Ninetieth Birthday Anniversary of Eileen Chang), Hong Kong Baptist University
“張愛玲作品中的晚清文化：性別，現代性和舊式家族的衰落”(Late Qing Themes in Eileen Chang: Gender, modernity, and the household in decline)
Mar 2010 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,
“Middle Classes or Property Slaves? Images and Social Tension in