China design now /
edited by Zhang Hongxing & Lauren Parker, with special assistance from Beth McKillop.
- 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm
Published to coincide with the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Mar. 15-July 13, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index.
Map of Shenzhem / He Jun (MEWE) -- Shenzhen: frontier city / Zhanh Hongxing -- Designing propaganda: the business of politics / Stefan Landsberger -- Try the crab / Huang Zhicheng -- Get louder / Ye Ying -- Shenzhen working / Yu Haibo -- Map of Shnghai / Liu Zhizhi (MEWE) -- Shanghai: dream city / Lauren Parker -- Home: a Chinese middle-class concept / Yin Zhixian -- A brief history of Chinese fashion design / Bao Mingxin, Lu Lijun -- Live & loud: a tour of 21st-century urban youth culture / Li Wen -- Shanghai living / Hu Yang -- Map of Beijing / Guang Yu (MEWE) -- Beijing: future city / Jianfei Zhu -- Urban Archipelago, city of Meridians / Shi Jian -- Commuting in China / Helen Evenden -- Changing the change / Ezio Manzini, Benny Ding Leong -- Beijing building / Zeng Li.
"China Design Now is a highly topical look at the development of a vibrant Chinese design culture within the context of China's recent history of industrialisation, consumer revolution and rapid urbanisation. Focusing on China's hopes and dreams - from the entrepreneurial spirit of individual designers, to society's aspirations at a moment of tremendous change, to the global ambitions of a nation - China Design Now explores how China's new design culture began, what its driving forces are, and how it is developing."--Jacket.