The borders of Chinese architecture
Title:
The borders of Chinese architecture
Author:
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, author.
ISBN:
9780674241015
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
Physical Description:
xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
| "Edwin O. Reischauer lectures" -- half-title page. |
Contents:
Introduction: The borders problem -- Chinese architecture before China-- Han -- Architecture before reunification -- Seeing the sixth century as the seventh and eighth -- Tang internationalism -- Defining Chinese architecture and borders during the Liao -- Western Xia, Song, Japan, Jin -- A revisionist history of Yuan architecture -- Ming -- The long eighteenth century.
Abstract:
"Chinese architecture is astonishingly uniform. Buddhists, Daoists, and Muslims, inside China and beyond, built Chinese-style structures the same way for two thousand years, despite mastering new technologies along the way. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt offers an authoritative overview of design principles that have stood the test of time-and geography"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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