House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese

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House Home Family

Living and Being Chinese

Edited by: Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2005

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Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture

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Knapp Ronald G. :

Ronald G. Knapp, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, New Paltz, where he taught from 1968 to 2001, has been carrying out research on the cultural and historical geography of China since 1965. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books concerning the vernacular architecture of China and Southeast Asia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Foreword: Looking Back on Chinese Art, Architecture, and History Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	XIX
1 Chinas Houses, Homes, and Families Ronald G. Knapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part One The house
2 The House: An Introduction Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
3 In Search of the Elusive Chinese House Ronald G. Knapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
4 House and Garden: Sanctuary for the Body and the Mind Joseph C. Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
5 Siting and Situating a Dwelling Ronald G. Knapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
6 Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present Cary Y. Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
7 Traditional Chinese Architecture and Furniture A Cultural Interpretation Kai-Yin Lo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
8 Sheltering the Past: The Preservation of China's Old Dwellings Nancy Berliner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Part Two The home and the family
9 The Meaning of Jia: An Introduction Nancy Jervis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
10 House United, House Divided: Myths and Realities, Then and Now Myron L. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
11 The Inner Quarters: Oppression or Freedom? Francesca Bray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
12 Between House and Home: The Family in South China David Faure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
13 Ancestral Halls: Family, Lineage, and Ritual Puay-Peng Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
14 Reading the Text of the Home: Domestic Ritual Configuration through Print James A. Flath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
15 The Symbolic Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Auspicious Nines in Traditional China Maggie Bickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
16 Making Room for Intimacy: Domestic Space and Conjugal Privacy in Rural North China Yunxiang Tan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	441
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445

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August 24, 2023

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9780824890964

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525

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