UID:
almafu_9959229008102883
Umfang:
xiv, 281 p. :
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ill., maps.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-36620-5
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1-280-07555-4
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1-134-36621-3
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0-203-61348-1
Inhalt:
Chinese Spatial Strategies 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, in relation to issues of history, geopolitics, urban social structure, imperial rule and authority, symbolism, and aesthetic and existential experience. At once historical and theoretical, the work argues that there is a Chinese approach to spatial disposition which is strategic and holistic.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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chapter Introduction: Beijing as a critical problem -- part PART I A social geography -- chapter 1 A geo-political project -- chapter 2 City plan as ideology -- chapter 3 Social space of the city -- chapter Concluding notes to Part I: Architecture of the city and the land -- part PART II A political architecture -- chapter 4 A sea of walls: the Purple Forbidden Palace -- chapter 5 The palace: framing a political landscape -- chapter 6 The palace: a battle?eld -- chapter 7 Constructs of authority -- chapter Concluding notes to Part II: Architecture as a machine of the state -- part Part III Religious and aesthetic compositions -- chapter 8 A religious discourse -- chapter 9 Formal compositions: visual and existential -- chapter Concluding notes to Part III: Architecture of horizon.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-31883-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-203-34818-4
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203613481
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