After the field trip in Sham Shui Po, I find this place is filled with A Taste of Old Hong Kong. I feel that people show each other care and sympathy here. The neighborhood is full of passion for life. It’s like a window back into the 80s, when entrepreneurial Hongkongers worked hard to transform themselves and their city.
(shop owner Henry Yau, source from Hong Kong Tourism Board)
Umbrella shop owner Henry Yau has lived in Sham Shui Po for more than 60 years, and has witnessed the development of this area. He has plenty of friends on every street and felt that people show each other care and sympathy here. He thinks that living in Sham Shui Po has taught him loyalty and friendliness, which is the main reason why his business could be run
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If you are interested in art, you can also find folk art and antique pieces in shops along Fuk Wing Street. Elsewhere in Sham Shui Po, you’ll see conserved and revitalized heritage sites and historical buildings. These include the Jao Tsung-I Academy, the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Mei Ho House, the Savannah College of Art and Design and Sham Shui Po Police Station. (Source from Yahoo HK)
All deserve to be visited. With young students exploring and photographing the area, the rest of Hong Kong has realized the heritage value of Sham Shui Po and its 100-year-old Chinese medicine practices, tong lau tenement houses and other colonial structures that are scattered throughout the area, giving the area its distinctive flavor.
The commence of a number of redevelopment projects and the historical buildings revitalisation plans for the former Lai Chi Kok Hospital, North Kowloon Magistracy and Mei Ho House bring new impacts to the district, promoting its tourism, cultural and creative industries. While redeveloping this district, preserving the district culture including street life of residents, built heritage and so on are needed, the Government should take them into consideration, so that the unique characters can be
I arrived at the Hsi Lai Temple in the city of Hacienda Heights around 3:00 p.m. on March 7, 2014. Although I am Chinese, I have never been to this temple before because my family does not practice Buddhism. This is my first time collecting data about the His Lai Temple. This method is referred to as participant-observation which is, “the anthropological method of collecting data by living with another people, learning their language, and understanding their culture” (Arenson and Miller-Thayer 521). The temple is built on a hill top. After driving up the long hill into the parking lot, I found that before entering the temple, I walked up many stairs. In the brochure For Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple, it said that the name Hsi Lai stands for “coming to the West”. The temple, which was founded by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, signifies the dedication of Taiwan’s largest Buddhist organizations called the Fo Guang Shan. It took ten years to build the temple and was completed in 1988. This $30 million Temple on 15 acres of land was financed by donations from Buddhist devotees from around the worlds.
The Hejia Village Hoard (found near Chang’an) includes vessels with bases in the Sassanian style, a small bowl with lions, ribbon-carrying birds, and pearls (Iranian motifs), a silver cup with a shape suggesting a Sogdian vessel and Western faces, a cup with an eight-lobed shape, a pearl border, and alternating hunters on horseback (Sassanian) and Chinese women with instruments. Some of these vessels are believed to be foreign-made while other are believed to have been made in China, influenced by foreign craftsmen. 1
She also introducing new urban building standards. This this article she talks about, the idea some people have of tearing it down and rebuilding. She also talks about ideas people have about some parts of towns. In Boston, she talks about the area of North End, and the change that it was over gone. During her second visit to this area, she discovered that it had changed. She talked to other about it, although the statistic were higher than the city, the people still saw it as a slum. They felt that they needed to tear it down in order to build something better. This leads to the conclusion that the urban planners to do understand that the people of the city need. They have ideas that were developed years ago that they are still using. These ideas do not take account what the people want. The author also introducing new ideas of a perfect city to live in and what it would look like. The idea of a garden city was introduced. This city would be built around a park. Although the new ideas sounded great they could not be put into place today. The idea of a Garden City is something that sounds nice, but it is not possible in society today. Today a city should reflect economic status, and in order to achieve this the city should be big, and convey an image of power. A city that has aspects of nature in it would not convey that image. That upkeep of a city of that kind would also be difficult. The do understand the author's point of view. The planners often times do not take into account the desires of the people. The town that I grow up in want to become more urbanized. In order to do this, they are building a large shopping center. This shopping center is located in the canyon rim. This canyon rim has been important the people for many years. We come to the area to walk, what bass jumpers, and enjoy the scenic views. This new shopping center took away this area. Many of the people
The illustrations in Lon Po Po are done in a panel style. They are dark with some blurry images making some pictures hard to see enhancing the scary parts of the story. Lon Po Po is set in the Chinese countryside. It is the mother that makes the journey to grandmother’s house leaving behind her three young daughters. Since the mother will not return until the next day the girls are told to go inside at sunset and latch the door. The clever wolf saw that the girls were alone, and impersonated the grandmother Po Po to trick the children to let him inside. From the start the oldest child Shang was very suspicious, were the younger two Tao and Paotze were very excited to see Po Po and quickly opened the door. Shang continued to question Po Po with things in which she found very suspicious about, like her foot having a bush on it, or her hands having tho...
My grandmother once told me that Englewood was desolate and bleak at 20 years ago when she first came to Chicago. But now with develop gentrification, majestic and high buildings are everywhere comparing to the before dilapidated cottage as well as the building under construction. Not long ago, I visited the Englewood community with an intense curiosity about how it looks like. Finally, I found that it is more brilliant than I expected before as the bygone impression in my brain. As my grandmother said, everywhere is flourishing because of the remarkable and positive impact of gentrification. Local residents also gladly share with me about how the superb gentrification change the little things of daily life and how happy they are. I really enjoy the process they merrily share me something about joy, and hopefully, they could always
This is evident in the persistence of elderly characters, such as Grandmother Poh-Poh, who instigate the old Chinese culture to avoid the younger children from following different traditions. As well, the Chinese Canadians look to the Vancouver heritage community known as Chinatown to maintain their identity using on their historical past, beliefs, and traditions. The novel uniquely “encodes stories about their origins, its inhabitants, and the broader society in which they are set,” (S. Source 1) to teach for future generations. In conclusion, this influential novel discusses the ability for many characters to sustain one sole
James Watson’s McDonald’s in Hong Kong is a textbook example of globalization. According to Webster’s dictionary, globalization is defined as “worldwide integration and development”. In McDonald’s in Hong Kong, Watson discusses a well-known and successful American fast food chain migrating over seas and embedding itself in the Hong Kong culture. Although Hong Kong was already recognized as an extremely transnational civilization, there were worries that the country would lose cultural identity. The fears were that Hong Kong would become more Americanized and lessen their ties to the Cantonese ways.
Next, since the village is located up high in the mountains, the palace and the Kung Fu warriors training space is surrounded by nature and its beauty. Nature is a major thought in Taoism. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires” (Lau Tzu). The palace is in a secluded area and a plain design that is simple just as the teachings of Lau Tzu says to have in order to be a tru...
Roppongi Hills in Tokyo is often mentioned as one of the largest and most successful city renewal projects that have ever been made after World WarⅡin Japan. The project started in 1984 and took about 17 years to complete. The plan involved the city government, the land developer Mori Building Co., and the residents living in the construction area. Just to reach agreements with 500 right holders, the company had spent over 15 years (“Roppongi Hills.”). The concept of the renewal plan seems totally opposite from that of Jane Jacobs, but there is a point in the history of this Roppongi renewal plan that is equivalent to her philosophy. Jane Jacobs’ idea regarding a local community in the city was accidentally realized in the process of building the Roppongi Hills half a century later in Japan.
One of his buildings that really captured my attention is the aforementioned Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. The structural expressionism adopted in the design of this building is supposed to resemble growing bamboo shoots, symbolising livelihood and prosperity. The whole structure is supported by the five steel columns at the corners of the building, with the triangular frameworks transferring the weight of the building onto these five columns. It is covered with glass curtain walls, and it’s unique appearance means that it remains one of Hong Kong’s most distinguishable buildings. However, like the Louvre it has caused quite a large amount of controversy, as it is the only major building in Hong Kong that bypassed the convention of consulting with Feng Shui masters on the design prior to the start on construction.
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During the 10th to 12th centuries known as the Heian era, Japan was breaking away from the styles of the Chinese T'ang Dynasty. New ideas were developing as the Imperial court converted what it had learned. In the area of garden design, however, Chinese thought was still a powerful force. Most of the aesthetic principles we see as Japanese had not yet developed. The dominant architectural style, called Shinden, was essentially a modification of Chinese design. Buildings were arranged somewhat symmetrically and according to the laws of Chinese geomancy called Feng shui. Within the mansions, a central building, the shinden (sleeping hall) would be linked to other outlying buildings by covered causeways. Beyond the tile roofs and verandas was the gar...
Many of the old-style buildings have historical value in Hong Kong and they can be evolved into heritage hotels through redevelopment and renovation to
Yap included an obvious comparison of the old Singapore with the modern Singapore. This comparison reinforces the changes Yap is trying to point out to readers, The lines, ‘there used to be big trees… now I see the light’ reveals the typical changes in modern cities that Yap feels very strongly about. Trees were one of Yap’s most vivid memory and they helped him remember Bukit Timah. But now that they are gone, the feeling of being sheltered and protected is slowly faded. The raindrops that use to be shield from Yap are now exposed. These remembrances are further supported with the adjective, ‘unfamiliar’. The old bukit timah is gone along with all the precious childhood memories. Allowing readers to reflect on how big the changes are, Yap brought in mother nature, sunlight and rain. Even mother nature has adapted to the new environment.
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