House, home, family : living and being Chinese / edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo.
Series: Spatial habitus (Series)Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press ; New York : China Institute in America, c2005.Description: xxi, 453 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 0824828585 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780824828585 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0824829530 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780824829537 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Living and being Chinese
- 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
- 728/.0951 22
- NA7448 .H68 2005
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The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks | Non-fiction | NA7448 .H68 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | TBC00016694 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-439) and index.
Foreword : Looking back on Chinese art, architecture, and history / Wen Fong -- China's houses, homes, and families / Ronald G. Knapp -- The house : an introduction / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- In search of the elusive Chinese house / Ronald G. Knapp -- House and garden : sanctuary for the body and the mind / Joseph C. Wang -- Siting and situating a dwelling : Fengshui, house-building rituals, and amulets / Ronald G. Knapp -- Chinese architectural aesthetics : patterns of living and being between past and present / Cary Y. Liu -- Traditional Chinese architecture and furniture : a cultural interpretation / Kai-Yin Lo -- Sheltering the past : the preservation of China's old dwellings / Nancy Berliner -- The meaning of jia : an introduction / Nancy Jervis -- House united, house divided : myths and realities, then and now / Myron L. Cohen -- The inner quarters : oppression or freedom? / Francesca Bray -- Between house and home : the family in South China / David Faure -- Ancestral halls : family, lineage, and ritual / Puay-peng Ho -- Reading the text of the home : domestic ritual configuration through print / James A. Flath -- The symbolic seasonal round in house and palace : counting the auspicious nines in traditional China / Maggie Bickford -- Making room for intimacy : domestic space and conjugal privacy in rural North China / Yunxiang Yan.
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