Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 50-75). Also available in print.

Cette recherche explore les dynamiques et les impacts des transferts de concepts de développement urbain durable (DUD) de l’Europe vers la Chine. Ce sujet a suscité de plus en plus d’intérêt, suite à l’apparition de partenariats internationaux pour le développement d’éco-villes et de méthodes pour améliorer la qualité de vie des villes existantes. Cette étude explore en particulier une initiative de coopération internationale qui a concerné la ville de Yangzhou dans les années 2000. Cette initiative visait à promouvoir le transfert du concept de « rénovation urbaine douce », développé à Berlin au début des années 1980, afin d’encourager la conservation des quartiers traditionnels de Yangzhou. Partant des questions de recherche vouées à savoir si un modèle développé dans un contexte spécifique peut être mis en œuvre dans un autre, et la contribution de la coopération internationale dans ce processus, cette étude analyse le transfert de la rénovation urbaine douce à Yangzhou. Elle utilise un cadre de recherche qui met l’accent à la fois sur les résultats du transfert et sur le processus qui a amené à ces résultats. En se basant sur l’analyse de documents officiels, sur l’examen de la littérature et sur plusieurs entretiens, cette étude révèle que la coopération internationale peut contribuer de manière importante aux transferts de modèles de DUD. Elle révèle également que le succès de ces initiatives dépend beaucoup des capacités locales à importer les modèles étrangers. En particulier, elle montre que à Yangzhou ces capacités sont limitées. Ces limites sont surtout attribuées à la volonté politique des principaux décideurs locaux et à la structure institutionnelle du gouvernement local, qui fait prévaloir l’informalité et les décisions hiérarchiques sur l’application des règles formelles. / This research explores the dynamics and impacts of transfers of concepts of sustainable urban development (SUD) from Europe to China. This topic is of great interest since in recent years international partnerships for the development of eco-cities and of methods to improve the liveability of the existing cities flourished in this country. This study focuses in particular on an initiative of international cooperation concerning the city of Yangzhou in the early 2000s. This initiative aimed at promoting the transfer of the concept of “Careful Urban Renewal”, developed in Berlin in the early 1980s, to foster the sustainable conservation of the traditional quarters of Yangzhou. This study digs into the process of transfer and learning in Yangzhou to question whether a model established in a specific locality can be applied in another, and what is the contribution of international cooperation. It uses a research framework that focuses both on the outcomes of transfer and on its process. Relying on official documents analysis, on literature review and on semi-structured interviews, this study reveals that projects of international cooperation can make an important contribution to the transfer of models of SUD. It also reveals that the success of these initiatives depends very much on the capacities of the borrowing society to import and adapt foreign models. The case study of Yangzhou in particular reveals that this city has limited capacities to pursue the process of learning launched by the international collaboration. These limited capacities are ascribable, above all, to the political willingness of the city’s top decision-makers and to the institutional structure of the local government, making informal rules and hierarchical decisions prevail over the application of formal rules.

Wong King Chi, Kenneth. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-206). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter 1.0 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Issue and Scope --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Modern Studies of Gardens in Yangzhou: 'A Mixed Tradition of North and South' and 'The Qianlong Style' --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- An Alternative Reading --- p.4 / Chapter 2.0 --- Scholar Garden: A Convention or Invention? --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- Wenren yuan 文人園:A Problematic Term --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Garden and Eremitism: Taohua Yuan 桃花源 and Wangchuan Bieye 輞川別業 --- p.11 / Chapter 2.2 --- Discourses on Garden: The Authority of Yuan Ye 園冶 --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3 --- A Material Culture / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Xianqing Ouji 閑情偶寄 and the Popularization of Gardens in Late Ming --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Recent Studies on the Material Aspect of Ming Gardens --- p.22 / Chapter 3.0 --- Yangzhou in the Oing dynasty: Social and Intellectual Climate --- p.28 / Chapter 3.1 --- A City of Fame and Prosperity --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Culture of Salt Merchants --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Extravagance --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Gardens Mania --- p.33 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Patronage to Artists and Scholars --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Response of the Literati --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Elegance and Vulgarity --- p.38 / Chapter 4.0 --- Yangzhou Gardens in the Time of Kangxi (1662-1722) and Qianlong (1736-1795) --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1 --- Famous Yangzhou Gardens --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Gardens of the Zheng's Brothers: Ying Yuan 影園 and Xiu Yuan 休園 --- p.41 / Chapter 4.2 --- The Grand Project: Shou Xihu Gardens 痩西湖 --- p.44 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Qianlong's Southern Tour --- p.45 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Shou Xihu Gardens in Yangzhou Huafanglu 揚州畫舫錄 --- p.46 / Chapter 4.3 --- The New City's Gardens --- p.48 / Chapter 5.0 --- Ge Yuan --- p.50 / Chapter 5.1 --- Historical Background --- p.50 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Record of the Garden: Ge Yuan ji 個園記 --- p.51 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Planning --- p.53 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Garden Layout --- p.54 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Touring Paths --- p.56 / Chapter 5.3 --- Rockeries of the Seasons: A Query --- p.58 / Chapter 6.0 --- Jixiao Shanzhuang --- p.63 / Chapter 6.1 --- Historical Background --- p.63 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Jixiao and Tao Qian --- p.64 / Chapter 6.2 --- The Plan --- p.65 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Touring Paths --- p.67 / Chapter 6.3 --- Theater in the Garden --- p.68 / Chapter 7.0 --- Spatial Reading One: A Scholar's Hut Amongst Immortal's Mountain --- p.70 / Chapter 7.1 --- Rockery and Garden Building --- p.70 / Chapter 7.2 --- The Influence of Shitao 石濤 --- p.72 / Chapter 7.3 --- Wandering and Dwelling --- p.74 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- Keyou keju 可游可居 in Landscape Paintings --- p.74 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- Prospect and Refuge --- p.77 / Chapter 7.3.3 --- yuan 遠 and shen: 深 Reading of Space and Place in Garden --- p.78 / Chapter 8.0 --- Spatial Reading Two: Shuttling between Mundane and Transcendent Worlds --- p.82 / Chapter 8.1 --- The Western and Eastern Portions --- p.82 / Chapter 8.1.1 --- The Influence of Yuan Jiang's Painting of Dong Yuan 東園 --- p.85 / Chapter 8.1.2 --- The Lands of Immortals --- p.87 / Chapter 8.1.3 --- Inversion --- p.91 / Chapter 8.1.4 --- Smallness and Largeness --- p.93 / Chapter 8.1.5 --- Jiejing 借景 --- p.95 / Chapter 8.2 --- Symbols of Continuity --- p.98 / Chapter 8.2.1 --- Entrance Sequence --- p.98 / Chapter 8.2.2 --- A Bridge Across Two Realms --- p.98 / Chapter 8.2.3 --- "Pavilion, ting 亭" --- p.100 / Chapter 8.2.4 --- Boat-like Hall --- p.100 / Chapter 8.2.5 --- Twin-corridor --- p.103 / Chapter 8.2.6 --- Walls and Windows: Cave Openings --- p.103 / Chapter 8.3 --- Shuttling --- p.106 / Chapter 9.0 --- Spatial Reading Three: A Pursuit of Elegance --- p.108 / Chapter 9.1 --- Bamboo: A Symbol of Gentleman --- p.108 / Chapter 9.1.1 --- The Influence of Zheng Xie 鄭燮:Bamboo and qinggao 清高，Loftiness --- p.109 / Chapter 9.1.2 --- The Invention of Taste: From ziran 自然 to ya 雅 --- p.111 / Chapter 9.2 --- Gardens of the Ma's Brothers: Xingan 行庵 and Xiaolinglong Shanguan小玲瓏山館 --- p.115 / Chapter 9.2.1 --- "The Metaphor of kanshan 看山,Seeing Mountain" --- p.118 / Chapter 10.0 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.121 / Illustrations --- p.123 / Bibliography --- p.197

Housing bubbles could have a great impact on the economy of a country, especially for a country as large as China. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the housing bubble situation of a region. Based on the classification of cities, this research has selected Yangzhou as the main research sample to predict the overall situation of housing bubble in third-level cities in China. The paper integrates the relevant theories and methods of the housing bubble research mentioned in the literature, and seeks out a set of suitable real estate bubble research methods: using ADF test, EG cointegration analysis to see whether the indicators are suitable as variables in the Granger causality test and regression analysis, and then perform regression analysis on the appropriate variables and housing prices to judge the real estate bubble. Also, the result of Yangzhou is applied to compare with that of Beijing and Shanghai so as to get the difference of real estate markets between first- and third-level cities. / Bostadsbubblor kan ge allvarlig inverkan på ett lands ekonomi, särskilt för ett så stort land som Kina. Därför är det nödvändigt att utvärdera om eventuella bostadsbubblor förekommer i olika regioner. I detta arbete analyseras förekomsten av en bostadsbubbla i en av Kinas städer i den tredje storleksklassen enligt det kinesiska klassificeringssystemet. Studieobjektet som valts är Yangzhou. I uppsatsen diskuteras de relevanta teorier och metoder som förekommer i litteraturen för analys av bostadsbubblor och ett antal metoder tillämpas. ADF-test och Engel-Grainer-kointegration används för att avgöra vilka av de tillgängliga marknadsindikatorerna som är lämpliga att använda vid test av Granger-kausalitet och i regressionsanalyser. Regressioner med de utvalda variablerna görs sedan mot bostadspriser för att erhålla mått på förekomsten av en bostadsbubbla. De empiriska resultaten från studien jämförs också med resultat för Beijing and Shanghai för att påvisa skillnader mellan marknaderna i städer av första respektive tredje storleksklassen.

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