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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450745303321

Autore

Zhu Jianfei <1962, >

Titolo

Chinese spatial strategies : imperial Beijing, 1420-1911 / / Jianfei Zhu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-280-07555-4

1-134-36621-3

0-203-61348-1

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 281 p. : ill., maps

Disciplina

720/.951/156

Soggetti

Architecture - China - Beijing - Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912

Space (Architecture) - China - Beijing

Architecture and state - China - Beijing

Architecture and religion

City planning - China - Beijing

Electronic books.

Beijing (China) Buildings, structures, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter Introduction: Beijing as a critical problem -- part PART I A social geography -- chapter 1 A geo-political project -- chapter 2 City plan as ideology -- chapter 3 Social space of the city -- chapter Concluding notes to Part I: Architecture of the city and the land -- part PART II A political architecture -- chapter 4 A sea of walls: the Purple Forbidden Palace -- chapter 5 The palace: framing a political landscape -- chapter 6 The palace: a battle?eld -- chapter 7 Constructs of authority -- chapter Concluding notes to Part II: Architecture as a machine of the state -- part Part III Religious and aesthetic compositions -- chapter 8 A religious discourse -- chapter 9 Formal compositions: visual and existential -- chapter Concluding notes to Part III: Architecture of horizon.