Borders of Chinese Architecture

Chinese architecture is astonishingly uniform. Buddhists, Daoists, and Muslims, inside China and beyond, built Chinese-style structures the same way for two thousand years, despite mastering new technologies along the way. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt offers an authoritative overview of design principles that have stood the test of time¿and geography.

About the author

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Chinese Architecture: A History. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, Getty Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society.

Summary

Chinese architecture is astonishingly uniform. Buddhists, Daoists, and Muslims, inside China and beyond, built Chinese-style structures the same way for two thousand years, despite mastering new technologies along the way. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt offers an authoritative overview of design principles that have stood the test of time—and geography.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Steinhardt Nancy Shatzman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780674241015
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24101-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; HISTORY / Asia / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, ART / Asian / General, ART / Asian / Chinese, History of Art, History of Architecture, East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Oriental art