House, home, family : living and being Chinese /

House, home, family : living and being Chinese / Living and being Chinese edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo. - Honolulu : New York : University of Hawaii Press ; China Institute in America, c2005. - xxi, 453 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Spatial habitus (Series) . - Spatial habitus (Series). .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-439) and index.

Looking back on Chinese art, architecture, and history / China's houses, homes, and families / The house : an introduction / In search of the elusive Chinese house / House and garden : sanctuary for the body and the mind / Siting and situating a dwelling : Fengshui, house-building rituals, and amulets / Chinese architectural aesthetics : patterns of living and being between past and present / Traditional Chinese architecture and furniture : a cultural interpretation / Sheltering the past : the preservation of China's old dwellings / The meaning of jia : an introduction / House united, house divided : myths and realities, then and now / The inner quarters : oppression or freedom? / Between house and home : the family in South China / Ancestral halls : family, lineage, and ritual / Reading the text of the home : domestic ritual configuration through print / The symbolic seasonal round in house and palace : counting the auspicious nines in traditional China / Making room for intimacy : domestic space and conjugal privacy in rural North China / Wen Fong -- Ronald G. Knapp -- Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- Ronald G. Knapp -- Joseph C. Wang -- Ronald G. Knapp -- Cary Y. Liu -- Kai-Yin Lo -- Nancy Berliner -- Nancy Jervis -- Myron L. Cohen -- Francesca Bray -- David Faure -- Puay-peng Ho -- James A. Flath -- Maggie Bickford -- Yunxiang Yan. Foreword :



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Architecture, Domestic--China.
Vernacular architecture--China.
Architecture and society--China.
Architecture--Human factors--China.
Symbolism in architecture--China.
Architecture domestique--Chine.
Architecture vernaculaire--Chine.
Architecture et société--Chine.
Architecture--Facteurs humains--Chine.
Symbolisme en architecture--Chine.
Feng-shui.
Familie.
Wohnen.
Wohnkultur.
Brauchtum.
Haus.
Möbel.
Innenarchitektur.
Architecture, Domestic--China.
Vernacular architecture--China.
Architecture and society--China.
Architecture--Human factors--China.
Symbolism in architecture--China.


China.

NA7448 / .H68 2005

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