The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China
Title | The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Thorp |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 904 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Architecture |
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The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China
Title | The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lee Thorp |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 832 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Antiquities, Chinese |
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The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China
Title | The Mortuary Art and Architecture of Early Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 1984 |
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The Construction of Space in Early China
Title | The Construction of Space in Early China PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 514 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0791482499 |
This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household, the city, the region, and the world. The central theme of the book is the way all these forms of ordered space were reshaped by the project of unification and how, at the same time, that unification was constrained and limited by the necessary survival of the units on which it was based. Consequently, as Mark Edward Lewis shows, each level of spatial organization could achieve order and meaning only within an encompassing, superior whole: the body within the household, the household within the lineage and state, the city within the region, and the region within the world empire, while each level still contained within itself the smaller units from which it was formed. The unity that was the empire's highest goal avoided collapse back into the original chaos of nondistinction only by preserving within itself the very divisions on the basis of family or region that it claimed to transcend.
The Formative Stages of Mortuary Art in Early Imperial China
Title | The Formative Stages of Mortuary Art in Early Imperial China PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Thorp |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The Mortuary and Architecture of Early Imperial China (Volumes I and II)
Title | The Mortuary and Architecture of Early Imperial China (Volumes I and II) PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lee Thorp |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 1979 |
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Contemplating the Ancients
Title | Contemplating the Ancients PDF eBook |
Author | Audrey Spiro |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520321081 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.