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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olberding, Garret P. S.

Series:

Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient

Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient ; v.31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God (Chinese religion).

China--Civilization--1644-1912.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

External and Internal: Absolute and Relative Space in Song Literati Painting

Producing Shu Culture: Why Painters Needed Court Titles in Tenth-Century Sichuan

The Recollection of Place in Li Daoyuan's Shuijing zhu

Chuci and the Politics of Space under the Qin and Han Empires

A Tomb with a View: Axonometry in Early Chinese Cartography

Spatial Conceptions of the Yellow River's Origin in Medieval Chinese Texts

Remarks on the Mathematics and Philosophy of Space-time in Early Imperial China

Diplomacy as Transgression in Early China

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9783110749823

3110749823

OCLC:

1302165348