Nancy Steinhardt
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Publication date:
May, 2019
Abstract:
Throughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built civilizations. The nation's architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First Emperor's vision of city and empire, to bridges, pagodas, and the twentieth-century constructions of the Socialist state. In this beautifully illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt presents the first fully comprehensive survey of Chinese architecture in any language. With rich political and historical context, Steinhardt covers forty centuries of architecture, from the genesis of Chinese building through to the twenty-first century and the challenges of urban expansion and globalism.
Steinhardt follows the extraordinary breadth of China's architectural legacy--including excavation sites, gardens, guild halls, and relief sculpture--and considers the influence of Chinese architecture on Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Tibet. Architectural examples from Chinese ethnic populations and various religions are examined, such as monasteries, mosques, observatories, and tombs. Steinhardt also shows that Chinese architecture is united by a standardized system of construction, applicable whether buildings are temples, imperial palaces, or shrines. Every architectural type is based on the models that came before it, and principles established centuries earlier dictate building practices. China's unique system has allowed its built environment to stand as a profound symbol of Chinese culture.
With unprecedented breadth united by a continuous chronological narrative, Chinese Architecture offers the best scholarship available on this remarkable subject for scholars, students, and general readers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Beyond the Forbidden City
Chapter 1: Genesis of Chinese Buildings and Cities
Chapter 2: Architecture of the First Emperor and His Predecessors
Chapter 3: Han Architecture
Chapter 4: An Age of Turmoil: Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Sixteen States
Chapter 5: Northern Dynasties and Southern Dynasties
Chapter 6: Sui and Tang: Architecture for Empires
Chapter 7: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Chapter 8: Grandeur and Magnificence under Liao and Western Xia
Chapter 9: The Chinese Building Standards
Chapter 10: Song Elegance and Jin Opulence
Chapter 11: The Chinese City between Tang and Ming
Chapter 12: The Mongol Century
Chapter 13: The Chinese Imperial City and Its Architecture, Ming and Qing
Chapter 14: Late Imperial Architecture in Chinese Style
Chapter 15: Convergences: Lamaist, Dai, Islamic
Chapter 16: Gardens and House
Chapter 17: China comes to Europe, Europe comes to China, Chinese students come to the United States
Conclusion
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