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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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