The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China : Shaping the Expanse

Garret Pagenstecher Olberding

ISBN 10: 3110749653 / ISBN 13: 9783110749656

Editore: De Gruyter, SAGW, 2022

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Neuware - 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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• Titolo: The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China : Shaping the Expanse
• Editore: De Gruyter, SAGW
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110749653
• ISBN 13: 9783110749656
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 220 L x 140 A x 12 P (millimetri) 220 millimetri di larghezza per 140 millimetri di altezza per 12 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 406 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Garret Pagenstecher Olberding, University of Oklahoma, USA.