Chinese landscapes : the village as place / edited by Ronald G. Knapp.

Contributor(s):

Knapp, Ronald G, 1940-

Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1992.Description: ix, 313 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:

0824814134
9780824814137

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Chinese landscapes.DDC classification:

307.72/0951 20

LOC classification:

GF656 .C48 1992

Other classification:

74.21
RR 69615
74.12

Online resources:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Village landscapes / Ronald G. Knapp -- China's rural settlement patterns / Jin Qiming and Li Wei -- Village Fengshui principles / Fan Wei -- Changing village landscapes / Ronald G. Knapp and Shen DongQi -- Sheung Wo Hang village, Hong Kong : a village shaped by Fengshui / Patrick H. Hase and Lee Man-Yip -- Xiqi village, Guangdong : compact with ecological planning / Jonathan Hammond -- Chawan village, Guangdong : fishing and farming along the South China Sea / James P. Warfield -- Hongcun village, Anhui : a place of rivers and lakes / Shan Deqi -- Dangjia village, Shaanxi : a brilliant pearl / Liu Baozhong -- Zhouzhuang, Jiangsu : a historic market town / Joseph C. Wang -- Yachuan village, Gansu, and Shimadao village, Shaanxi : subterranean villages / Gideon Golany -- Hekeng village, Fujian : unique habitats / Olivier Laude -- Cangpo village : Zhejiang : a relict with a future? / Ronald G. Knapp.

Dazhai village, Shanxi : a model landscape / Christopher L. Salter -- Suburban Weigang, Jinagsu : a transformed village / Gregory Veeck -- Lincun village, Fujian : harmony between humans, environment, and the supernatural / Huang Shu-Min -- Fengjiacun village, Shandong : a corporate community / Stewart Odend'hal -- Dacaiyuan village, Henan : migration and village renewal / Nancy Jervis -- MaGaoqiao village, Sichuan : habitat in the Red Basin / Stephen Endicott -- Longlin village, Hainan : cash crops and new houses / Catherine Enderton and Wen Changen -- Hsin Hsing village, Taiwan : from farm to factory / Rita S. Gallin and Bernard Gallin.

Summary: The studies collected in this volume were written by anthropologists, architects, geographers, historians, a sociologist, and a veterinary ecologist. Taken together they form an exceptionally coherent survey of Chinese villages, ranging from the dry north to the humid southeast and southwest of this vast country. Going beyond books on Chinese vernacular architecture that focus on individual dwellings, this work examines the village ensemble itself, the various settings for the habitation, work, and leisure of China's large rural population.Summary: Discussions of design, spatial layout, physical setting, settlement patterns, geomantic principles (fengshui), and evolutionary patterns set the stage for eighteen village case studies. Many villages still preserve characteristics that evoke a respect for and understanding of "old China," while others expose the drastic metamorphosis of recent decades. Villages are examined as places, emphasizing that which is visible; each village has its own order and complex of natural and human elements. Chinese Landscapes, though it focuses on the physical appearance of individual villages as they are situated within the constellation that comprises the Chinese landscape, suggests much about more general social, economic, and political patterns.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-305) and index.

The studies collected in this volume were written by anthropologists, architects, geographers, historians, a sociologist, and a veterinary ecologist. Taken together they form an exceptionally coherent survey of Chinese villages, ranging from the dry north to the humid southeast and southwest of this vast country. Going beyond books on Chinese vernacular architecture that focus on individual dwellings, this work examines the village ensemble itself, the various settings for the habitation, work, and leisure of China's large rural population.

Discussions of design, spatial layout, physical setting, settlement patterns, geomantic principles (fengshui), and evolutionary patterns set the stage for eighteen village case studies. Many villages still preserve characteristics that evoke a respect for and understanding of "old China," while others expose the drastic metamorphosis of recent decades. Villages are examined as places, emphasizing that which is visible; each village has its own order and complex of natural and human elements. Chinese Landscapes, though it focuses on the physical appearance of individual villages as they are situated within the constellation that comprises the Chinese landscape, suggests much about more general social, economic, and political patterns.

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