Yin Yu Tang : the architecture and daily life of a Chinese house / Nancy Berliner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958-

Contributor:

Peabody Essex Museum.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--China--Huizhou Diqu.

Architecture, Domestic.

Vernacular architecture--China--Huizhou Diqu.

Vernacular architecture.

Huizhou Diqu (China)--Social life and customs.

Huizhou Diqu (China).

Huang family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Tuttle Pub., 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) a Chinese merchant named Huang built a house for his family in a small, remote village in the southeastern region of Huizhou in China's Anhui Province. He named the house Yin Yu Tang. For seven generations, members of the Huang family ate, slept, laughed, cried, married, and gave birth in the house. By the mid-1990s, the surviving Huang family members moved away leaving the house empty and abandoned. In 1997 the house was moved to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and opened as a permanent exhibit.Yin Yu Tang provides a fascinati

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chronology; Huang Family Timeline; Huang; Maps and Names; Dynasties and Time Periods; PART 1 Huizhou: Mountains and Merchants; PART 2 Jia: Hometown and Family; PART 3 The Architecture of Yin Yu Tang; Epilogue: Preserving Yin Yu Tang for Generations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Yin Yu Tang will open to the public in the Peabody Essex Museum, June 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173) and index.

ISBN:

1-4629-0941-8

OCLC:

821185497