Yuan : Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire / Nancy Steinhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinhardt, Nancy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--China.

Architecture.

China--History--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368.

China.

Genre:

History.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024]

Summary:

A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and stages. With a history enlivened by the likes of Khubilai Khan and Marco Polo, this spectacular empire spanned the breadth of China and far, far beyond, but its rulers were Mongols. Yuan presents the first comprehensive study in English of the architecture of China under Mongol rule.In this richly illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt looks at cities such as the legendary Shangdu—inspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Xanadu—as well as the architecture the Mongols encountered on their routes of conquest. She examines the buildings and monuments of diverse faiths in China during the period, from Buddhist and Daoist to Confucian, Islamic, and Christian, as well as unusual structures such as observatories, archways, stone and metal buildings, and sarcophaguses. Steinhardt dispels long-standing views of the Mongols as destroyers of cities and architecture across Asia, showing how the khans and their families built more than they tore down. She demonstrates that the stipulations of the Chinese building system were powerful and resilient enough to guide the architecture that rose under Mongolian rule.Drawing on Steinhardt’s groundbreaking textual research in numerous languages as well as her pioneering fieldwork at sites across East Asia, Yuan will become the standard reference on this critical period of cultural and artistic exchange.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Family Tree of Chinggis Khan

Introduction

Chapter One: Wall-Enclosed Spaces

Spaces of the Empire: Envisioned, Political, Seasonal, Pleasurable

Four Capitals

Walled Enclosures before Khubilai

Mongolia and Eastern Russia

South of Mongolia

Chapter Two: The Century before the Mongol Century

Jin

Song

Chapter Three: Official Yuan Construction

Virtuous Tranquility Hall

Observatory in Dengfeng

Cloud Terrace at Juyong Pass

Ren Renfa's Sluice

Three Pavilions

Two Towers

Chapter Four: Halls to the Gods and of the Populace

Yonglegong

Guangsheng Monastery

Hancheng

More Yuan Buildings in North China

Yuan Buildings in Southeastern China

Yuan Buildings in Southwestern China

Yuan Wooden Halls Summarized

Stone, Metal, and Brick

Chapter Five: Architecture of Death, Private Life, and Popular Life

Architecture of Death

Architecture of Private Life

Stages

Gardens

Chapter Six: Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian Architecture

Chinese Monasteries for Muslim Prayer

Muslim Burial in Yuan China

Tibetan Pagodas in Chinese Monasteries

Temple to Mani

Churches

Chapter Seven: Rock-Carved Architecture and Freestanding Stone

Longshan

Feilaifeng

Baocheng Monastery

Arzhai and Gansu

Rock-Carved Architecture in Northwestern Iran

Yangqunmiao

Chapter Eight: Yuan-Period Construction East of China

Koryŏ Architecture

Japan's Buddhist Monasteries

Conclusion: A Revisionist History: Chinese Architecture, Mongol Patrons, European Observers, East Asian Archaeologists

Notes

Bibliography

Character Glossary

Photo and Illustration Credits

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Steinhardt, Nancy Yuan

ISBN:

9780691253350

0691253358

OCLC:

1397576317