Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil 200 600 is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt in 2014-12-31, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Art genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Art book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil 200 600 can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.

Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil 200 600 Book PDF Summary

Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China. Illustrated with more than 475 color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidence—Chinese texts, secondary literature in six languages, excavation reports, and most important, physical remains—to present the architectural history of this tumultuous period in China’s history. Its author, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, arguably North America’s leading scholar of premodern Chinese architecture, has done field research at nearly every site mentioned, many of which were unknown twenty years ago and have never been described in a Western language. The physical remains are a handful of pagodas, dozens of cave-temples, thousands of tombs, small-scale evidence of architecture such as sarcophaguses, and countless representations of buildings in paint and relief sculpture. Together they narrate an expansive architectural history that offers the first in-depth study of the development, century-by-century, of Chinese architecture of third through the sixth centuries, plus a view of important buildings from the two hundred years before the third century and the resolution of architecture of this period in later construction. The subtext of this history is an examination of Chinese architecture that answers fundamental questions such as: What was achieved by a building system of standardized components? Why has this building tradition of perishable materials endured so long in China? Why did it have so much appeal to non-Chinese empire builders? Does contemporary architecture of Korea and Japan enhance our understanding of Chinese construction? How much of a role did Buddhism play in construction during the period under study? In answering these questions, the book focuses on the relation between cities and monuments and their heroic or powerful patrons, among them Cao Cao, Shi Hu, Empress Dowager Hu, Gao Huan, and lesser-known individuals. Specific and uniquely Chinese aspects of architecture are explained. The relevance of sweeping—and sometimes uncomfortable—concepts relevant to the Chinese architectural tradition such as colonialism, diffusionism, and the role of historical memory also resonate though the book.

Detail Book of Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil 200 600 PDF

Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil  200 600
  • Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
  • Release : 31 December 2014
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • ISBN : 9780824838232
  • Genre : Art
  • Total Page : 498 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 18,9 Mb

If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil 200 600 by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.

Get Book

Traditional Chinese Architecture

Traditional Chinese Architecture Author : Xinian Fu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
File Size : 23,7 Mb
Get Book
A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architecture Translated by...

The Borders of Chinese Architecture

The Borders of Chinese Architecture Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
File Size : 18,5 Mb
Get Book
An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consiste...

China s Early Mosques

China s Early Mosques Author : Steinhardt Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Get Book
What happens when a monotheistic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civ...

Bangkok Utopia

Bangkok Utopia Author : Lawrence Chua
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
File Size : 31,8 Mb
Get Book
“Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its ...

Yungang

Yungang Author : Joy Lidu Yi
Publisher : Routledge
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Get Book
The first-ever comprehensive analysis of its kind in any western language, this unique volume provid...

Diversity in the Great Unity

Diversity in the Great Unity Author : Lala Zuo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Get Book
Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarch...

Modern Kyoto

Modern Kyoto Author : Alice Y. Tseng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
File Size : 30,6 Mb
Get Book
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intr...