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House Home Family : Living and Being Chinese / ed. by Ronald G. Knapp, Kai-Yin Lo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's ArchitecturePublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (525 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780824890964
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: Looking Back on Chinese Art, Architecture, and History -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Chinas Houses, Homes, and Families -- Part One The house -- 2 The House: An Introduction -- 3 In Search of the Elusive Chinese House -- 4 House and Garden: Sanctuary for the Body and the Mind -- 5 Siting and Situating a Dwelling -- 6 Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present -- 7 Traditional Chinese Architecture and Furniture A Cultural Interpretation -- 8 Sheltering the Past: The Preservation of China's Old Dwellings -- Part Two The home and the family -- 9 The Meaning of Jia: An Introduction -- 10 House United, House Divided: Myths and Realities, Then and Now -- 11 The Inner Quarters: Oppression or Freedom? -- 12 Between House and Home: The Family in South China -- 13 Ancestral Halls: Family, Lineage, and Ritual -- 14 Reading the Text of the Home: Domestic Ritual Configuration through Print -- 15 The Symbolic Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Auspicious Nines in Traditional China -- 16 Making Room for Intimacy: Domestic Space and Conjugal Privacy in Rural North China -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: Looking Back on Chinese Art, Architecture, and History -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Chinas Houses, Homes, and Families -- Part One The house -- 2 The House: An Introduction -- 3 In Search of the Elusive Chinese House -- 4 House and Garden: Sanctuary for the Body and the Mind -- 5 Siting and Situating a Dwelling -- 6 Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present -- 7 Traditional Chinese Architecture and Furniture A Cultural Interpretation -- 8 Sheltering the Past: The Preservation of China's Old Dwellings -- Part Two The home and the family -- 9 The Meaning of Jia: An Introduction -- 10 House United, House Divided: Myths and Realities, Then and Now -- 11 The Inner Quarters: Oppression or Freedom? -- 12 Between House and Home: The Family in South China -- 13 Ancestral Halls: Family, Lineage, and Ritual -- 14 Reading the Text of the Home: Domestic Ritual Configuration through Print -- 15 The Symbolic Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Auspicious Nines in Traditional China -- 16 Making Room for Intimacy: Domestic Space and Conjugal Privacy in Rural North China -- Glossary -- References -- Contributors -- Index

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In English.

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