Museum of Shanzhai Architecture
Dear friends, the Museum of Shanzhai Architecture is excited to launch our very own podcast channel!
Our museum, founded in 2020, is a leading institution with the most complete and authoritative collection on shanzhai culture, particularly on architecture. We particularly focus on researching shanzhai architectures that are based on Western prototypes.
Through our podcasts, we aim to take you on a journey through the original and impact of Shanghai architecture in contemporary China. These architectures are archives of the wave of contemporary China. We will dig through these architectures to understand the complex relations between authenticity and imitation, East and West, 'self' and 'other', the representation of power, and the constantly evolving climate of Chinese cultural identity.
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Museum of Shanzhai Architecture
Looking at the West through Shanzhai: A Review of Architectural Imitation in Contemporary China
We are excited to launch the first session in our series of talks, "Rethinking Shanzhai 2023" and happy to invite the journalist and photographer Pianren share his research about shanzhai architecture.
Pianren Shan is a journalist and photographer, specialising in architectural photography. He is also a member of the "West as the Other" and one of the academic consultant of MSA