9 The Meaning of Jia: An Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Foreword: Looking Back on Chinese Art, Architecture, and History XI
4. Preface XVII
5. Acknowledgments XIX
6. 1 Chinas Houses, Homes, and Families 1
7. Part One The house
8. 2 The House: An Introduction 11
9. 3 In Search of the Elusive Chinese House 37
10. 4 House and Garden: Sanctuary for the Body and the Mind 73
11. 5 Siting and Situating a Dwelling 99
12. 6 Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present 139
13. 7 Traditional Chinese Architecture and Furniture A Cultural Interpretation 161
14. 8 Sheltering the Past: The Preservation of China's Old Dwellings 205
15. Part Two The home and the family
16. 9 The Meaning of Jia: An Introduction 221
17. 10 House United, House Divided: Myths and Realities, Then and Now 235
18. 11 The Inner Quarters: Oppression or Freedom? 259
19. 12 Between House and Home: The Family in South China 281
20. 13 Ancestral Halls: Family, Lineage, and Ritual 295
21. 14 Reading the Text of the Home: Domestic Ritual Configuration through Print 325
22. 15 The Symbolic Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Auspicious Nines in Traditional China 349
23. 16 Making Room for Intimacy: Domestic Space and Conjugal Privacy in Rural North China 373
24. Glossary 397
25. References 415
26. Contributors 441
27. Index 445