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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557839503321

Titolo

The exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China : shaping the expanse / / edited by Garret Pagenstecher Olberding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Welten ostasiens = worlds of East Asia = mondes de l'extrême orient ; ; Volume 31

Disciplina

951.03

Soggetti

China Civilization 1644-1912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Garret Pagenstecher Olberding Introduction -- Martin J. Powers External and Internal: Absolute and Relative Space in Song Literati Painting -- FOONG Ping Producing Shu Culture: Why Painters Needed Court Titles in TenthCentury Sichuan -- Alexis Lycas The Recollection of Place in Li Daoyuan's Shuijingzhu -- Vincent S. Leung Chuci and the Politics of Space under the Qin and Han Empires -- H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang A Tomb with a View: Axonometry in Early Chinese Cartography -- Linda Rui Feng Spatial Conceptions of the Yellow River's Origin in Medieval Chinese Texts -- Daniel Patrick Morgan Remarks on the Mathematics and Philosophy of Space-time in Early Imperial China -- Garret Pagenstecher Olberding Diplomacy as Transgression in Early China -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five general areas: pictorial representation, literary description, cartographic mappings, and the intertwining of heavenly and earthly space.