Steve McCloy

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour, and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of Dream of the Red Mansion, Journey to the West, The Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy, and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain...

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour, and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of Dream of the Red Mansion, Journey to the West, The Water Margin, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. They are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy, and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain...