The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China : Shaping the Expanse
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Contributors
Hsu-Tang, H.M. Agnes, Contributor
Leung, Vincent S., Contributor
Lycas, Alexis, Contributor
Morgan, Daniel Patrick, Contributor
Pagenstecher Olberding, Garret, Contributor
Leung, Vincent S., Contributor
Lycas, Alexis, Contributor
Morgan, Daniel Patrick, Contributor
Pagenstecher Olberding, Garret, Contributor
Published
Berlin ; De Gruyter,, [2022].
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eBook
ISBN
9783110749823
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Language
English
UPC
10.1515/9783110749823
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Description
This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five general areas: pictorial representation, literary description, cartographic mappings, and the intertwining of heavenly and earthly space. It recommends that the spatial imagination in the pre-modern world cannot adequately be captured using a linear, militarily framed conceptualization. The scope and varying perspectives on the spatial imagination analyzed in the volume's essays reveal a complex range of aspects that informs how space was designed and utilized. Due to the complexity and advanced scholarly level of the papers, the primary readership will be other scholars and advanced graduate students in history, history of science, geography, art history, religious studies, literature, and, broadly, sinology.
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Issued also in print.
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funded by SAGW
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Language
In English.