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20 produkter
Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200 - 600
Av Nancy S. Steinhardt, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
815 kr
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Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of …
Kyoto
An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
Av Matthew Stavros, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
348 kr
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Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world’s largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a place where the political, artistic, and religious …
Hermit's Hut
Asceticism and Architecture in India
Av Kazi Ashraf, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
587 kr
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The Hermit’s Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent encounter with the question of excess and less, it is typically considered separate from asceticism. …
Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea
Av Inha Jung, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
500 kr
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Although modernisation in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century—in particular it has brought radical changes in Korean architecture and cities. Traditional structures and ways of life have been thoroughly uprooted …
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Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
Av Bianca Bosker, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
340 kr
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A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s Thames Town, where pubs and statues of Winston Churchill abound. Gleaming replicas of the White House dot …
Diversity in the Great Unity
Regional Yuan Architecture
Av Lala Zuo, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
848 kr
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Timber-framed architecture has long been viewed as an embodiment of Chinese civilization, a hierarchic society ruled by Confucian orthodoxy. Throughout its history, Chinese architectural design was closely regulated by court-enforced building codes, which created a highly standardized and …
Bangkok Utopia
Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910-1973
Av Lawrence Chua, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
877 kr
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Utopia" is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, …
Dougong
The Cultural Geometry of the Chinese Bracket Set
Av Alexandra Harrer, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
848 kr
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This is the first English-language study devoted to dougong, the block-bracket cluster widely regarded as the epitome of traditional Chinese architecture. For almost two millennia, dougong have been central to the multipartite frame structure of wooden buildings, connecting columns with beams, …
Chinese Bridges
Living Architecture From China''s Past
E-bok, 2012
164 kr
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Bridges, the least known and understood of China''s many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess. Chinese Bridges brings together a thorough look at the marvels of Chinese bridge design from one of the world''s leading experts on Chinese culture and …
Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia
The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers
E-bok, 2013
300 kr
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Featuring over 350 beautiful photographs, Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia captures the architectural heritage of a vibrant community. The multiple Chinese migrations from southeastern China to Southeast Asia have had important implications for both regions. In Southeast Asia this influence can be …
Chinese Houses
The Architectural Heritage of a Nation
E-bok, 2012
265 kr
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Winner of ForeWord Magazine''s Architecture "Book of the Year" Award! Exquisite examples of traditional dwellings are scattered throughout modern-day China. Chinese Houses focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional Chinese homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas …
Things Chinese
Antiques, Crafts, Collectibles
E-bok, 2012
137 kr
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China''s art objects and traditionally manufactured products have long been sought by collectors—from porcelains and silk fabrics to furniture and even the lacquered chopsticks that are a distant relation to ones found in most Chinese restaurants. Things Chinese presents sixty distinctive items …
Peranakan Chinese Home
Art and Culture in Daily Life
E-bok, 2013
150 kr
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Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive furniture and ceramics, textiles and jewelry, and many other art objects. Peranakan Chinese Home displays these extraordinary objects, visible markers …
America's Covered Bridges
Practical Crossings?Nostalgic Icons
Av Ronald G. Knapp, Terry E. Miller
E-bok, 2014
137 kr
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As many as 15,000 covered bridges were built in North America over the past 200 years. Fewer than 1,000 remain. In America''s Covered Bridges , authors Terry E. Miller and Ronald G. Knapp tell the fascinating story of these bridges, how they were built, the technological breakthroughs required to …
Theodore Burr and the Bridging of Early America
The Man, Fellow Bridge Builders, and Their Forgotten Timber Spans
Av Ronald G Knapp, Terry E Miller
Häftad, 2023
804 kr
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Theodore Burr and the Bridging of Early America
The Man, Fellow Bridge Builders, and Their Forgotten Timber Spans
Av Ronald G Knapp, Terry E Miller
Inbunden, 2023
837 kr
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China's Covered Bridges
Architecture Over Water
Av Ronald G. Knapp, Terry E. Miller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
759 kr
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China’s Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water is the first book in English to examine comprehensively one of the three great covered bridge traditions in the world. Based on decades of observation and ten years of intensive field research throughout China, this book illuminates countless covered …
China’s Contested Capital
Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing
Av Charles Musgrove, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
587 kr
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When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better suited than Beijing to serve as its capital. For the next decade, until the Japanese invasion in 1937, Nanjing was the “model capital” of Nationalist …
Kyoto
An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
Av Matthew Stavros, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
935 kr
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Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of the modern era. Until about the fifteenth century, it was also among the world’s largest cities and, as the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, it was a place where the political, artistic, and religious …
Traces of the Sage
Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius
Av James A. Flath, Ronald G. Knapp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
626 kr
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The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world's greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China's past, the home of Confucius grew in size and stature under the auspices of almost every major dynasty until it was the largest and most richly endowed …
