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- Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China. The physical remains are a handful of pagodas, dozens of cave-temples, thousands of tombs, small-scale evidence of architecture such as sarcophaguses, and countless representations of buildings in paint and relief sculpture. Together they narrate an expansive architectural history that offers the first in-depth study of the development, century-by-century, of Chinese architecture of third through the sixth centuries, plus a view of important buildings from the two hundred years before the third century and the resolution of architecture of this period in later construction.
Illustrated with more than 475 color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidence—Chinese texts, secondary literature in six languages, excavation reports, and most important, physical remains—to present the architectural history of this tumultuous period in China’s history.
Table of Contents
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- Part One: Background to Architecture in an Age of Turmoil
- Chapter 2. Han Beginnings
- pp. 45-94
- Part Two: Four Centuries of Great Monuments
- Part Three: Understanding and Resolution of Architecture in an Age of Turmoil
- Character Glossary
- pp. 393-400
- Bibliography
- pp. 401-452
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824838232
Related ISBN(s)
9780824838225
MARC Record
OCLC
929790826
Pages
560
Launched on MUSE
2015-11-19
Language
English
Open Access
No