The exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China : : shaping the expanse / / edited by Garret Pagenstecher Olberding.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pagenstecher Olberding, Garret,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2022]
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Welten ostasiens = worlds of East Asia = mondes de l'extrême orient ; Volume 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.

This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five general areas: pictorial representation, literary description, cartographic mappings, and the intertwining of heavenly and earthly space.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Garret Pagenstecher Olberding Introduction -- Martin J. Powers External and Internal: Absolute and Relative Space in Song Literati Painting -- FOONG Ping Producing Shu Culture: Why Painters Needed Court Titles in TenthCentury Sichuan -- Alexis Lycas The Recollection of Place in Li Daoyuan's Shuijingzhu -- Vincent S. Leung Chuci and the Politics of Space under the Qin and Han Empires -- H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang A Tomb with a View: Axonometry in Early Chinese Cartography -- Linda Rui Feng Spatial Conceptions of the Yellow River's Origin in Medieval Chinese Texts -- Daniel Patrick Morgan Remarks on the Mathematics and Philosophy of Space-time in Early Imperial China -- Garret Pagenstecher Olberding Diplomacy as Transgression in Early China -- Index.