| Chapter : | Introduction: Tradition and Modernity in China |
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Figure 3. Traditionally styled multi-storey shopping centre in Chongqing. Photo: Christopher Crouch.
globalisation in China. The third section, Transforming Tradition, looks at the ways in which tradition survives and provides examples of how it has changed in the commodity design field. Finally, Cultural Transformation and the Media, examines and reports on the way in which the new media have formed and responded to the traditional models of cultural practice. Each section has a brief introduction in which the chapters are introduced in more detail and the links between them are established. This should enable the reader to move backwards and forwards through the book and still understand how the chapters interrelate.