The exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China : : shaping the expanse /

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

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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 ma...

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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.
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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.

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