The Borders of Chinese Architecture / / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.
An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it is built. For the last two millennia, an overwhelming number of Chinese buildings have been elevated on platforms, supported by pillars, and covered by ce...
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Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Borders of Chinese Architecture / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (320 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: The Borders Problem -- 1. Chinese Architecture before China -- 2. Han -- 3. Architecture before Reunification -- 4. Seeing the Sixth Century as the Seventh and Eighth -- 5. Tang Internationalism -- 6. Defining Chinese Architecture and Borders during Liao -- 7. Western Xia, Song, Japan, Jin -- 8. A Revisionist History of Yuan Architecture -- 9. Ming -- 10. The Long Eighteenth Century -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it is built. For the last two millennia, an overwhelming number of Chinese buildings have been elevated on platforms, supported by pillars, and covered by ceramic-tile roofs. Less obvious features, like the brackets connecting the pillars to roof frames, also have been remarkably constant. What makes the shared features more significant, however, is that they are present in Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and Islamic milieus; residential, funerary, and garden structures; in Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and elsewhere. How did Chinese-style architecture maintain such standardization for so long, even beyond China’s borders? Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt examines the essential features of Chinese architecture and its global transmission and translation from the predynastic age to the eighteenth century. Across myriad political, social, and cultural contexts within China and throughout East Asia, certain design and construction principles endured. Builders never abandoned perishable wood in favor of more permanent building materials, even though Chinese engineers knew how to make brick and stone structures in the last millennium BCE. Chinese architecture the world over is also distinctive in that it was invariably accomplished by anonymous craftsmen. And Chinese buildings held consistently to the plan of the four-sided enclosure, which both afforded privacy and differentiated sacred interior space from an exterior understood as the sphere of profane activity. Finally, Chinese-style buildings have always and everywhere been organized along straight lines. Taking note of these and other fascinating uniformities, The Borders of Chinese Architecture offers an accessible and authoritative overview of a tradition studiously preserved across time and space. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) ARCHITECTURE / History / General. bisacsh Architectural translation. Chinese architecture. Chinese history. East Asian architecture. Japanese architecture. Korean architecture. Mongolian architecture. Northeast Asia. Sameness. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022 9783110992793 ZDB-23-DAD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2022 English 9783110992816 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739114 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110785791 print 9780674241015 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674269583?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674269583 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674269583/original |
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