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Architecture played an active and important role in both late-Mao and early reform-era China (1970-1992). A new book published by Yale University Press, Designing Reform: Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992, explores the architectural history of China's economic liberalization, and the many ways architectural ideas, practices, and objects helped to change China and, by extension, the world at large.
On January 11, 2022, Cole Roskam, Associate Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong, will be joined by Yishi Liu, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, for a discussion on Professor Roskam's new book, looking at architecture projects such as the Jianguo Hotel, located across the street from Yale Center Beijing and the first joint-venture hotel in China, as well as other projects such as the Beijing Railway Station and the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. The speakers will take audience questions after the discussion.
