The Art Of Terrestrial Diagrams In Early China
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Author |
: Michelle H. Wang |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2023-11-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226827476 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022682747X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China by : Michelle H. Wang
A study of early Chinese maps using interdisciplinary methods. This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute the entire known corpus of early Chinese maps (ditu). More than a millennium separates them from the next available map in the early twelfth century CE. Unlike extant studies that draw heavily from the history of cartography, this book offers an alternative perspective by mobilizing methods from art history, archaeology, material culture, religion, and philosophy. It examines the diversity of forms and functions in early Chinese ditu to argue that these pictures did not simply represent natural topography and built environments, but rather made and remade worlds for the living and the dead. Wang explores the multifaceted and multifunctional diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China.
Author |
: D. Jonathan Felt |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2021-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674251164 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674251168 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Structures of the Earth by : D. Jonathan Felt
Structures of the Earth is the first study of the emergent genre of geographical writing and the metageographies that structured its spatial thought during the "Age of Disunion" and continue to illuminate spatial complexities that have been incompatible with the imperial and nationalist ideal of a monolithic China at the center of the world.
Author |
: Garret Pagenstecher Olberding |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2021-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009084062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009084062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Designing Boundaries in Early China by : Garret Pagenstecher Olberding
Ancient Chinese walls, such as the Great Wall of China, were not sovereign border lines. Instead, sovereign space was zonally exerted with monarchical powers expressed gradually over an area, based on possibilities for administrative action. The dynamically shifting, ritualized articulation of early Chinese sovereignty affects the interpretation of the spatial application of state force, including its cartographic representations. In Designing Boundaries in Early China, Garret Pagenstecher Olberding draws on a wide array of source materials concerning the territorialization of space to make a compelling case for how sovereign spaces were defined and regulated in this part of the ancient world. By considering the ways sovereignty extended itself across vast expanses in early China, Olberding informs our understanding of the ancient world and the nature of modern nation-states.
Author |
: Frank J. Swetz |
Publisher |
: Penn State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 96 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822007849953 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sea Island Mathematical Manual by : Frank J. Swetz
The Haidao Suanjing or Sea Island Mathematical Manual, is one of the "Ten Classics" of traditional Chinese mathematics, and its contents demonstrate the high standards of theoretical and mathematical sophistication present in early Chinese surveying theory. The Haidao composed in A.D. 263 by Liu Hui, established the mathematical procedures for much of East Asian surveying activity for the next one thousand years. The contents of the Haidao also testify to the ability of the Chinese to systematize mathematics and hint at the use of proof in Chinese mathematics, a concept usually associated with Greek mathematical thought. Frank Swetz provides an annotated translation of the Haidao and an analysis of its surveying problems. In particular, he details surveying techniques and undertakes a mathematical exposition of the Chinese chong cha solution procedures. The Haidao is a testimony to the ingenuity and skill of China's early surveyors and its author, Liu Hui. This study complements and extends the findings of Swetz's previous book, Was Pythagoras Chinese?An Examination of Right Triangle Theory in Ancient China.
Author |
: Kären Wigen |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2020-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226718620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022671862X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time in Maps by : Kären Wigen
Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.
Author |
: Stephen Little |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2000-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520227859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520227859 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Taoism and the Arts of China by : Stephen Little
A celebration of Taoist art traces the influence of philosophy on the visual arts in China.
Author |
: Kären Wigen |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2016-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226073057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022607305X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cartographic Japan by : Kären Wigen
Introduction to Part II - Kären Wigen -- Mapping the City -- 13. Characteristics of Premodern Urban Space - Tamai Tetsuo -- 14. Evolving Cartography of an Ancient Capital - Uesugi Kazuhiro -- 15. Historical Landscapes of Osaka - Uesugi Kazuhiro -- 16. The Urban Landscape of Early Edo in an East Asian Context - Tamai Tetsuo -- 17. Spatial Visions of Status - Ronald P. Toby -- 18. The Social Landscape of Edo - Paul Waley -- 19. What Is a Street? - Mary Elizabeth Berry -- Sacred Sites and Cosmic Visions -- 20. Locating Japan in a Buddhist World - D. Max Moerman
Author |
: Mark S. Monmonier |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 1993-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226534176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226534170 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mapping It Out by : Mark S. Monmonier
Monmonier shows authors and scholars how they can use expository cartography--the visual, two-dimensional organization of information--to heighten the impact of their books and articles. A concise, practical book that introduces the fundamental principles of graphic logic and design. 112 maps. 1 halftone.
Author |
: Madeleine Orban-Szontagh |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 50 |
Release |
: 1990-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486263304 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486263304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japanese Floral Patterns and Motifs by : Madeleine Orban-Szontagh
Practical archive of 45 royalty-free designs adapted from watercolors, screens, kimonos, Noh drama costumes, wall hangings, more. Wide variety of stripes, allover patterns, nature scenes, grand sprays of flowers and tree branches, other clearly detailed designs suggesting subtle elegance of Japanese art. Introduction. Captions.
Author |
: Francesca Bray |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 786 |
Release |
: 2007-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789047422655 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9047422651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China by : Francesca Bray
This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of machines. Here, however, tu is identified in Chinese terms, viz. as a philosophical category of knowledge production: visual templates for action, spanning a range from mandala to modernist mapping projects, inseparable from writing but with distinctive powers of communication. A distinction is made between two principal types of tu: ritual/symbolic and representational, highlighting essential issues such as historical shifts in their significance, the relations between tu and political power, media for inscribing tu and the impact of printing, and encounters with the West.