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Feng shui in Chinese architecture / Evelyn Lip.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lip, Evelyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--China.
- Architecture.
- Feng shui.
- Architecture--China--Aesthetics.
- Architecture--China--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Eds., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Feng Shui, literally 'wind and water', is a Chinese belief system aimed at finding the most harmonious sites for buildings by taking into account the metaphysical energy flow (qi), the influence of the Five Elements of the cosmos and a complex calculation of time cycles.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Traditional Chinese architecture
- pt. 2. Palace architecture in Beijing
- pt. 3. The kanyu of the Forbidden City
- pt. 4. Temple architecture
- pt. 5. Chinese landscape gardens.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 981-4346-04-7
- OCLC:
- 711748778
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