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Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600 (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
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Description for Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600 (Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture)
Hardcover. The author has done on-site research at almost every site mentioned in the book. Many of the 476 illustrations are the author's own photographs. Many of the sites and structures discussed in this book were unknown 20 years ago; the majority has never been published in a Western language. Series: Spatial Habitus: Making & Meaning in Asia's Architecture. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; AMX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1950.
Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China.
Illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidence—Chinese texts, secondary literature in ... Read more
Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China.
Illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidence—Chinese texts, secondary literature in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Series
Spatial Habitus: Making & Meaning in Asia's Architecture
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824838225
SKU
V9780824838225
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About Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Nancy S. Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
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