Home Beyond the House - Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China

List of contents

List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction. Chapter 1: Evolving Rural China. Chapter 2: The Village Underneath the Rock: The Cheng Family and the Vernacular Built Environment of Yanxia. Chapter 3: From a Local Deity to a World Heritage: Formation and Destruction of Vernacular Tradition. Chapter 4: From the Land: The Foundation of Rural China. Chapter 5: Rooted in the Past: Where Ancestors Lived. Chapter 6: Family as an Economic Entity: Divided Homes and Families. Chapter 7: Home without the House: Eternal Jiaxiang. Chapter 8: On Tradition. Chapter 9: Afterward. Epilogue. Index.

About the author

Wei (Windy) Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Louisiana Tech University. Zhao received a PhD in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research focuses on issues of social equity and sustainability, cultural identity and diversity, and the built environment of marginalized social groups in the context of globalization and climate change.

Summary

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition, including identity, consanguinity, collectivity, social relations, land ownership, and rural lifestyle.

Product details

• Authors: Wei Zhao, Wei (Texas a & M University) Zhao, Zhao Wei
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032280158
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228015-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Explorations in Housing Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; China, Sociology, Cultural Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Regional, ARCHITECTURE / Historic Preservation / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, ARCHITECTURE / Vernacular, The environment, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Regional Studies, Regional & area planning, History of Architecture, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Regional and area planning