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L'apparition d'une modernité architecturale et paysagère correspond à une période particulièrement propice aux échanges artistiques et intellectuels entre le Japon, l'Europe et les Etats-Unis, à partir de la fin de l'ère Meiji (1868-1912). La (re-)découverte de l'architecture et de l'art des jardins japonais par les orientalistes occidentaux et japonais, puis la réception et la diffusion de ses nouveaux modèles et savoirs, vont permettre à plusieurs générations d'architectes et de paysagistes de participer à la création de nouvelles expressions architecturales et paysagères. Les ouvrages de Josiah Conder ou de Bruno Taut, les œuvres de Frank Lloyd Wright, d'Antonin Raymond, d'Isamu Noguchi, nés de ces rencontres entre le Japon et l'Occident, sont les témoins de cette modernité.

Architecture --- History --- Japanese influences --- Japanese influence --- Histoire --- Influence japonaise --- J6500 --- J6532.01 --- J6020 --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- architecture --- World: Architecture, urbanization and landscape architecture in the West --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- Japanese aesthetics (Japonism) --- Art des jardins --- Architecture du paysage --- Espace (architecture) --- Jardins à la japonaise --- Architecture organique --- Jardins à la japonaise. --- Architecture organique. --- Influence japonaise. --- Japanese influences. --- Japanese influence. --- Jardins à la japonaise.

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The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats, travellers, traders, and literary men and women during the Romantic period. The new perceptions of China that it gave rise to were mediated via a dynamic print culture to a diverse range of poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists and reviewers, including Jane Austen, Thomas Percy, William Jones, S. T. Coleridge, George Colman, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and others, informing new British understandings and imaginings of China on the eve of the Opium War of 1839-42. Kitson aims to restore China to its true global presence in our understandings of the culture and literature of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

English literature --- S02/0300 --- S16/0700 --- S19/0140 --- History and criticism --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Comparative literature --- China: Natural sciences--History of sciences --- China --- In literature. --- Civilization. --- Romanticism --- History and criticism. --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- Chinese influences. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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La réforme du communisme n'a pas conduit à l'effondrement du régime de Pékin mais a permis une croissance économique spectaculaire qui fonde aujourd'hui son pouvoir. État fort mais puissance fragile en raison des inégalités sociales et d'une grave crise environnementale, la Chine entend s'affirmer sans devenir le gendarme du monde. Elle s'oppose à l'Occident mais fait tout pour lui ressembler. La Chine qui, de nos jours, semble étrangère à ses propres traditions, sera t-elle tentée de renouer avec son passé ? Le monde se laissera-t-il, à son tour, tenter par le « modèle » chinois ? Ce livre puise à la source de notre imaginaire et du rapport de la Chine à elle-même pour analyser la nature de son pouvoir et la réalité de sa puissance. Il propose un panorama approfondi des grandes problématiques du pays du nouveau dirigeant Xi Jinping, au-delà des clichés orientalistes et des jugements hâtifs sur la menace ou le miracle chinois. Stéphanie Balme est chercheur à Sciences Po (CERI), responsable du programme « Droit, justice et société en Chine » et professeur à l'École des Affaires internationales (PSIA) de Sciences Po. Elle a vécu plus de dix ans en Chine, entre Shanghai, Hong Kong et Pékin.

Chine --- China --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politics and government --- Conditions économiques --- Economic conditions --- Civilisation --- Civilization --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- S11/0540 --- S04/0923 --- S02/0300 --- S02/0150 --- China: Social sciences--The Chinese model --- China: History--PRC: since 1989 --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- China: General works--China (and Asia) general surveys: after 1949

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This book critically evaluates and supports the argument for adopting an inter-cultural or comparative approach in western political theory. The analysis of encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment illustrates that adopting an inter-cultural perspective in western political theory is necessary because West's cultural others have played a foundational role in developing a distinct western cultural self-understanding.

Globalization --- Enlightenment --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Cross-cultural studies --- Political science --- S02/0300 --- S02/0310 --- S13B/0410 --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Culture --- Ethnology --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the West and vice-versa --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Christianity--Jesuits (incl. Rites Controversy) --- Methodology --- Asia --- Europe --- Relations

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The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region's current water crisis from the perspective of its climate history, the authors ask the central question of what is "normal" climate for the West, and whether the relatively benign climate of the past century will continue into the future. The West without Water merges climate and paleoclimate research from a wide variety of sources as it introduces readers to key discoveries in cracking the secrets of the region's climatic past. It demonstrates that extended droughts and catastrophic floods have plagued the West with regularity over the past two millennia and recounts the most disastrous flood in the history of California and the West, which occurred in 1861-62. The authors show that, while the West may have temporarily buffered itself from such harsh climatic swings by creating artificial environments and human landscapes, our modern civilization may be ill-prepared for the future climate changes that are predicted to beset the region. They warn that it is time to face the realities of the past and prepare for a future in which fresh water may be less reliable.

Climatic changes --- Hydrology --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Forecasting. --- Environmental aspects --- Global environmental change --- artificial environments. --- benign climate. --- california. --- climate change science. --- climate change. --- climate. --- climatology. --- earth sciences. --- ecology. --- engaging. --- environment and ecology. --- environment. --- environmental reads in 2020. --- experiments. --- extended droughts. --- flood. --- fresh water. --- geology. --- history of the west. --- history. --- human landscapes. --- nature. --- phenomenon. --- planetary science. --- popular science. --- retrospective. --- science biology. --- scientists. --- social issues. --- tumultuous climate. --- united states. --- us western history. --- water. --- weather. --- western region.