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The borders of Chinese architecture

Title
The borders of Chinese architecture / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Author
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman
Publication
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022
  • ©2022

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Reischauer, Edwin O. (Edwin Oldfather), 1910-1990.
Description
xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
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"--
Subject
  • Architecture, Chinese > East Asia > History
  • Architectural design > East Asia > History
  • Religious architecture > East Asia > History
  • China > Boundaries
  • East Asia > Chinese influences
Note
  • "Edwin O. Reischauer lectures" -- half-title page
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
ISBN
  • 9780674241015
  • 0674241010
  • 9780674269583 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021020573
OCLC
  • on1241731601
  • 1241731601
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Columbia University Libraries