HYBRID MODERNITY: THE PUBLIC PARK IN LATE 20TH CENTURY CHINA

摘要

When referring to Chinese landscape design, people in most countries might first think of tra- ditional Chinese gardens that have been broadly and explicitly examined in many books and articles. Where are contemporary China's landscape practices explored? What are the similarities and differences between landscape development in contemporary China and other countries? There is not only a lack of English writing that synthesizes contemporary landscape practices in China but also a lack of reflection among Chinese. Focusing on urban parks in secondary cities, Mary G. Padua's book Hybrid Modernity is the first English-language book and one of the first endeavors attempting to reveal China's contemporary landscape practices to the world. "Hybrid modernity" means a new design genre for the spatial forms of parks with a diversified fusion of local and global design languages. These new design forms are different from traditional gardening and reveal that landscape architecture became a new profession and entered a new development stage in China.