UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC200428
Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203613481
Content:
Presents a study of social spaces of the capital of Ming Qing China (1420-1911). Focusing on early Ming and early and middle Qing, it explores architectural, urban and geographical space of Beijing
Note:
Front Cover -- Chinese Spatial Strategies -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beijing as a critical problem -- In search of a chinese space -- Outline of the research and the argument -- A note on method -- Part I: A social geography -- 1. A geo-political project -- 2. City plan as ideology -- A classical tradition -- Neo-Confucianism -- 3. Social space of the city -- A city of cities -- Space of the state -- Space of society -- Society versus the state -- Concluding notes to Part I: Architecture of the city and the land -- Part II: A political architecture -- 4. A sea of walls: the Purple Forbidden Palace -- The Palace City -- 5. The palace: framing a political landscape -- The inner court as a corporeal space -- The outer court as an institutional space -- A composition of forces -- 6. The palace: a battlefield -- Flows of reports and directives -- Defence -- Recurring crises -- 7. Constructs of authority -- Legalism and The Art of War -- Vis-à-vis the Panopticon: two ages of reason -- Concluding notes to Part II: Architecture as a machine of the state -- Part III: Religious and aesthetic compositions -- 8. A religious discourse -- Composing and building the discourse -- Performing an ideology -- 9. Formal compositions: visual and existential -- Beijing as a scroll -- Vis-à-vis 'Cartesian perspectivalism': two ways of seeing -- Concluding notes to Part III: Architecture of horizon -- Appendix: dynasties, reigns and emperors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Zhu, Jianfei Chinese Spatial Strategies Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415318839
Language:
English
Keywords:
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