The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China : Shaping the Expanse

• Record Nr.: UNISA996463251703316
• Autore: Olberding Garret P. S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-11-074982-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 pages)
• Collana: Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient ; ; v.31
• Disciplina: 951.03
• Soggetti: God (Chinese religion); China Civilization 1644-1912
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes 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.