Li Shiqiao
Biographic Data
| ID | 290412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Li Shiqiao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Li |
| FAMILY NAME | Shiqiao |
| SIGNATURE | SHIQIAO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7805-5904 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien: An Introduction
François Jullien wants us to see what thought and life could look like without ontology, promising intellectual riches unavailable in the heavy ontological apparatus we are deeply invested in. The strength of Jullien's argument comes from a deep and unique alliance between philosophy and Chinese thought, a risky one - incurring predictable disgruntlement from both philosophy and sinology - but nevertheless enduring and productive. This is far fro…
Language, Figure, Landscape in Chinese Thought
Grounded in the use of the visual, Chinese thought and language operate within a wide spectrum that includes calligraphy, poetry, literature, painting, and garden-landscapes. In languages of phonetic signifiers, the spectrum is deliberately controlled to be narrower, excluding the visual from language and delegating it to iconology. These linguistic-cultural strategies have an ancient past and produce far-reaching consequences in thought and arte…
Terminating Architecture: Mega-Development in Hong Kong
This paper examines large development projects as a function of finance in the context of Hong Kong, taking Kowloon Station as an exceptionally revealing case. Hong Kong's property market is one of the most established in Asia, and it points to the ways in which large-scale development schemes proliferate along efficient and affordable mass transit railway systems with great speed and success. At Kowloon Station, finance redefines architecture; i…
The 20-Kilometer University: Knowledge as Infrastructure
This piece presents the work of academics and architects in a collaborative venture. It provides an architectural design and a series of statements towards the hypothetical creation of an unconventional city centre in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The idea is to create a linear university that would run the 20-kilometer length of the Shenzhen Strip: the 20K university. The contributors outline, in the diversity of their idioms, a complex spatial …
An Analyst’s Couch for Architects
Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (1974) brought the plastic power of space to the theoretical foreground, and anticipated a flurry of theorization in architecture in the ensuing decades, eager to provoke an architectural mainstream which is deeply conservative. This architectural conservatism is protected by institutions, and at the heart of these institutions is a body of architectural knowledge – sustained by a grand illusion – that has…
The Body and Modernity in China
Research - China
Reconstituting Chinese Building Tradition: The Yingzao fashi in the Early Twentieth Century
In this paper, I analyze several early-twentieth-century attempts to reprint, edit, and annotate a Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) construction manual, the Yingzao fashi (1103), each one revealing an aspect of the project to define Chinese architecture. As manifested in the research on the Yingzao fashi by a number of Chinese scholars and architects, the project to reconstitute and understand the text was closely connected to broader intellectua…
Writing a Modern Chinese Architectural History: Liang Sicheng and Liang Qichao
This paper delineates a broader intellectual agenda in Liang Sicheng's seminal writings on Chinese architectural history in the 1930s and 1940s, by linking them to the historiographical writings of his father Liang Qichao, an insightful and hugely influential figure in early twentieth-century China. This broadening of understanding of Liang Sicheng's work is vital not only to the understanding of his architectural writings themselves, but also to…
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien: An Introduction
François Jullien wants us to see what thought and life could look like without ontology, promising intellectual riches unavailable in the heavy ontological apparatus we are deeply invested in. The strength of Jullien's argument comes from a deep and unique alliance between philosophy and Chinese thought, a risky one - incurring predictable disgruntlement from both philosophy and sinology - but nevertheless enduring and productive. This is far fro…
Terminating Architecture: Mega-Development in Hong Kong
This paper examines large development projects as a function of finance in the context of Hong Kong, taking Kowloon Station as an exceptionally revealing case. Hong Kong's property market is one of the most established in Asia, and it points to the ways in which large-scale development schemes proliferate along efficient and affordable mass transit railway systems with great speed and success. At Kowloon Station, finance redefines architecture; i…
The 20-Kilometer University: Knowledge as Infrastructure
This piece presents the work of academics and architects in a collaborative venture. It provides an architectural design and a series of statements towards the hypothetical creation of an unconventional city centre in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The idea is to create a linear university that would run the 20-kilometer length of the Shenzhen Strip: the 20K university. The contributors outline, in the diversity of their idioms, a complex spatial …
Writing a Modern Chinese Architectural History: Liang Sicheng and Liang Qichao
This paper delineates a broader intellectual agenda in Liang Sicheng's seminal writings on Chinese architectural history in the 1930s and 1940s, by linking them to the historiographical writings of his father Liang Qichao, an insightful and hugely influential figure in early twentieth-century China. This broadening of understanding of Liang Sicheng's work is vital not only to the understanding of his architectural writings themselves, but also to…
Reconstituting Chinese Building Tradition: The Yingzao fashi in the Early Twentieth Century
In this paper, I analyze several early-twentieth-century attempts to reprint, edit, and annotate a Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) construction manual, the Yingzao fashi (1103), each one revealing an aspect of the project to define Chinese architecture. As manifested in the research on the Yingzao fashi by a number of Chinese scholars and architects, the project to reconstitute and understand the text was closely connected to broader intellectua…
The Body and Modernity in China
Research - China
An Analyst’s Couch for Architects
Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (1974) brought the plastic power of space to the theoretical foreground, and anticipated a flurry of theorization in architecture in the ensuing decades, eager to provoke an architectural mainstream which is deeply conservative. This architectural conservatism is protected by institutions, and at the heart of these institutions is a body of architectural knowledge – sustained by a grand illusion – that has…
The 20-Kilometer University: Knowledge as Infrastructure
This piece presents the work of academics and architects in a collaborative venture. It provides an architectural design and a series of statements towards the hypothetical creation of an unconventional city centre in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The idea is to create a linear university that would run the 20-kilometer length of the Shenzhen Strip: the 20K university. The contributors outline, in the diversity of their idioms, a complex spatial …
Terminating Architecture: Mega-Development in Hong Kong
This paper examines large development projects as a function of finance in the context of Hong Kong, taking Kowloon Station as an exceptionally revealing case. Hong Kong's property market is one of the most established in Asia, and it points to the ways in which large-scale development schemes proliferate along efficient and affordable mass transit railway systems with great speed and success. At Kowloon Station, finance redefines architecture; i…
Against Ontology: Chinese Thought and François Jullien: An Introduction
François Jullien wants us to see what thought and life could look like without ontology, promising intellectual riches unavailable in the heavy ontological apparatus we are deeply invested in. The strength of Jullien's argument comes from a deep and unique alliance between philosophy and Chinese thought, a risky one - incurring predictable disgruntlement from both philosophy and sinology - but nevertheless enduring and productive. This is far fro…
Language, Figure, Landscape in Chinese Thought
Grounded in the use of the visual, Chinese thought and language operate within a wide spectrum that includes calligraphy, poetry, literature, painting, and garden-landscapes. In languages of phonetic signifiers, the spectrum is deliberately controlled to be narrower, excluding the visual from language and delegating it to iconology. These linguistic-cultural strategies have an ancient past and produce far-reaching consequences in thought and arte…
China (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Architecture (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geography (3 works)