House Home Family : : Living and Being Chinese / / ed. by Ronald G. Knapp, Kai-Yin Lo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Berliner, Nancy,; Bickford, Maggie,; Bray, Francesca,; Cohen, Myron L.,; Faure, David,; Flath, James A.,; Ho, Puay-Peng,; Jervis, Nancy,; Knapp, Ronald G.,; Liu, Cary Y.,; Lo, Kai-Yin,; Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman,; Tan, Yunxiang,; Wang, Joseph C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Knapp, Ronald G.,; Lo, Kai-Yin,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (525 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Foreword: Looking Back on Chinese Art, Architecture, and History
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Chinas Houses, Homes, and Families
• Part One The house
• 2 The House: An Introduction
• 3 In Search of the Elusive Chinese House
• 4 House and Garden: Sanctuary for the Body and the Mind
• 5 Siting and Situating a Dwelling
• 6 Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present
• 7 Traditional Chinese Architecture and Furniture A Cultural Interpretation
• 8 Sheltering the Past: The Preservation of China's Old Dwellings
• Part Two The home and the family
• 9 The Meaning of Jia: An Introduction
• 10 House United, House Divided: Myths and Realities, Then and Now
• 11 The Inner Quarters: Oppression or Freedom?
• 12 Between House and Home: The Family in South China
• 13 Ancestral Halls: Family, Lineage, and Ritual
• 14 Reading the Text of the Home: Domestic Ritual Configuration through Print
• 15 The Symbolic Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Auspicious Nines in Traditional China
• 16 Making Room for Intimacy: Domestic Space and Conjugal Privacy in Rural North China
• Glossary
• References
• Contributors
• Index