| Description |
1 online resource (778 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Translators -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 Reassembling for a Chinese Architecture: Notes for a New Departure -- Part I Ancient and Dynastic Tradition -- State Governance Over Building and City Planning -- 2 The Chinese City in the Service of the State -- 3 Typical Design Features of Ming Palaces and Altars in Beijing -- 4 Imperial Cities: Critical Changes in Urban Paradigm from Sui-Tang to Song |
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5 Yingzao Fashi: The Book and Methodical Issues for Studying It -- Literati Culture and Social Production -- 6 Literati Gardens of the Jiangnan Region: Characters and Mutations -- 7 Cang Lang Pavilion of Suzhou: Sentiment, Scenery, Aura, and Meaning -- 8 Landscape Urbanism: Urban-Rural Relations in Hangzhou of Southern Song China -- 9 Confucian Authority: Analysis of School-Temples at Imperial Academy of Beijing -- Folk Culture and Vernacular Practice -- 10 Fengshui Practice and Urban Development in Ancient China: An Outline |
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11 Yang Yunsong and the Jiangxi School of Fengshui Practice in Southern China -- 12 Carpentry In Vernacular Building Practice: The Master's Way -- 13 Vernacular Architecture: Themes and Variations Over a Large Country -- Part II Republican and Early Modern Transformation -- The Arrival of "Architecture": Profession, Knowledge, and Education -- 14 Emergence of "Architecture": In the Reform Years of Late Qing Dynasty -- 15 The Architect as a Profession in Republican China: Rising Under the State -- Modern Building Practice: Style and Technology |
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16 Building Technology in Republican China and Its Historical Legacies -- 17 Chinese Classical Revival: Nanjing, Capital of Republican China (1910s-40s) -- Modern City Construction and Spatial Formation -- 18 From Hankou Town to Greater Wuhan: Urban Spatial Organizations in Early Modern China -- 19 Modern Edutainment Space: Public Parks in Early Twentieth-Century China -- Part III Socialist-Maoist Modernization -- Spatial Construction and City Planning Under Socialist Ideology -- 20 Socialist Urban Planning in Mao's China (1949-1976) -- 21 Danwei and Socialist Urbanism |
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Practice, Education, and Knowledge Production -- 22 The Design Institute in Mao's China (1950s-70s) -- 23 Architectural Education in China (1950s-1980s): Constructing and Deconstructing -- 24 Theories of Spatial Composition: Design Knowledge in China up to the 1980s -- 25 Liang and Liu: Strategies for Writing an Architectural History in the 1950s -- Architecture in Socialist China: Nationalism and Modernism -- 26 National Style: Thinking and Building for a New Republic in Beijing (1949-1959) -- 27 Towards a Regional Modernism in Chinese Architecture (1930s-70s) |
| Summary |
This handbook, representing the collaboration of 41 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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28 For a Modernism: Huang and Feng at Shanghai's Tongji Architectural Programme |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wei, Chen
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Hua, Li
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| ISBN |
9781317914716 |
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1317914716 |
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