| Description |
1 online resource (449 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Notes |
"Edwin O. Reischauer lectures"--Half-title page |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed May 10, 2022) |
| Subject |
Architecture, Chinese -- East Asia -- History
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Architectural design -- East Asia -- History
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Religious architecture -- East Asia -- History
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Architectural design
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Architecture, Chinese
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Boundaries
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Civilization -- Chinese influences
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Religious architecture
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Boundaries
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East Asia -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040527
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China
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East Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674269583 |
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0674269586 |
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