The Development Of Cityscapes In Medieval China

Author : Chye Kiang Heng
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9971692236

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Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats by Chye Kiang Heng Pdf

The emergence of the open city during the 11th century is one of the most dramatic and important changes in Chinese urban history. While the Sui and the early Tang city was controlled and highly disciplined with restricted commercial activity, the late Northern Song city filled with pluralistic streets active round the clock became a new urban paradigm. These cities reflect the respective societies that gave rise to them - one rooted in a strong aristocratic power with a highly hierarchical social structure, and the other shaped by a pluralistic, mercantile society managed by pragmatic professional bureaucrats. This book provides an in-depth account of the process of transformation from the curfewed city of the Tang period to the open city of the Song. It analyses the multidimensional factors that gradually led to the development of an urban culture which in turn helped cement the trend towards the open city with its irregular layout and distinct urban tissue and silhouette.

Author : Chye Kiang Heng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:C2879492

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The Development of Cityscapes in Medieval China by Chye Kiang Heng Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968474

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Power and Politics in Tenth-century China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jing Xie
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811204838

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Chinese Urbanism: Urban Form And Life In The Tang-song Dynasties by Jing Xie Pdf

Since the 1990s, the urban landscape of China has witnessed revolutionary changes that are unrivalled in any country of the world throughout history. Rapid urbanization, facilitated by the modern planning mechanism for growth, provides a feast for property developers. Yet, associated urban problems such as housing affordability, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and environmental deterioration are aggravated. This book takes a historic approach to investigate the planning philosophy, urban form and life of the past. Through a detailed study of urban development from early times through the imperial period with a focus on the Tang-Song dynasties, this book attempts to articulate the good qualities of urban landscapes from the past that still have instructive value for modern practices. The focus on the Tang-Song period is not only because China was the most advanced civilization of its time, but also because it underwent a similar process of 'urbanization', evident by tremendous economic growth, a dramatic rise of urban population, and an extended building boom. Through evaluating the streets, city layout, public places, urban communities, houses and gardens, and using interdisciplinary research in urban planning, urban design, architecture, history, and cultural studies, this book asserts that the past is quintessentially important. The past not only truthfully records the course of social and cultural formation of urban community and its associated physical fabric, but also regulates the directions we may take in the future.

Author : Andrew Chittick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190937553

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The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History by Andrew Chittick Pdf

This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of ethnic identification, rejecting the idea of "ethnic Chinese," and delineating several other, more useful ethnographic categories, using case studies in agriculture/foodways and vernacular languages. The most important, the Wuren of the lower Yangzi region, were believed to be inherently different from the peoples of the Central Plains, and the rest of the book addresses the extent of their ethnogenesis in the medieval era. It assesses the political culture of the Jiankang Empire, emphasizing military strategy, institutional cultures, and political economy, showing how it differed from Central Plains-based empires, while having significant similarities to Southeast Asian regimes. It then explores how the Jiankang monarchs deployed three distinct repertoires of political legitimation (vernacular, Sinitic universalist, and Buddhist), arguing that the Sinitic repertoire was largely eclipsed in the sixth century, rendering the regime yet more similar to neighboring South Seas states. The conclusion points out how the research re-orients our understanding of acculturation and ethnic identification in medieval East Asia, generates new insights into the Tang-Song transition period, and offers new avenues of comparison with Southeast Asian and medieval European history.

Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0393078175

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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by Susan Wise Bauer Pdf

A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and the twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right thus replaces might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but the religions of the Persians and the Germans, and even Buddhism, are pressed into the service of the state. This phenomenon—stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan—changes religion, but it also changes the state.

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317817161

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Encyclopedia of Chinese History by Michael Dillon Pdf

China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society and economy and increasing coverage of contemporary China in the media. Our understanding of China’s history has also been evolving. The study of history in the People’s Republic of China during the Mao Zedong period was strictly regulated and primary sources were rarely available to westerners or even to most Chinese historians. Now that the Chinese archives are open to researchers, there is a growing body of academic expertise on history in China that is open to western analysis and historical methods. This has in many ways changed the way that Chinese history, particularly the modern period, is viewed. The Encyclopedia of Chinese History covers the entire span of Chinese history from the period known primarily through archaeology to the present day. Treating Chinese history in the broadest sense, the Encyclopedia includes coverage of the frontier regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet that have played such an important role in the history of China Proper and will also include material on Taiwan, and on the Chinese diaspora. In A-Z format with entries written by experts in the field of Chinese Studies, the Encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for students of Chinese history, politics and culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814465779

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Chinese City and Urbanism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chye Kiang Heng
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824819829

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Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats by Chye Kiang Heng Pdf

Describes and examines the structures of the capital cities and major urban centers from the Sui to the Northern Song period. It also provides an in-depth account of the process of transformation from the curfew controlled city of the Tang period to the open city of the Song.

Author : Debin Ma,Richard von Glahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108425575

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The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 1, To 1800 by Debin Ma,Richard von Glahn Pdf

A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from the pre-imperial era to 1800 from an international team of leading experts.

Author : Linda Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108356299

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Middle Imperial China, 900–1350 by Linda Walton Pdf

In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.

Author : Toby Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107196421

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An Urban History of China by Toby Lincoln Pdf

The first history of Chinese cities from their early origins to becoming the largest urban society in the world.

Author : Candice Goucher,Linda Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134723546

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WORLD HISTORY, JOURNEYS by Candice Goucher,Linda Walton Pdf

Using a thematic approach, this innovative textbook explores the history of the world, from its earliest prehistory to the present age of globalization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The History of China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Denis Crispin Twitchett,John K. Fairbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1097 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : China
ISBN : 9780521812481

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The Cambridge History of China: pt. 1. The Sung Dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279 by Denis Crispin Twitchett,John K. Fairbank Pdf

This first of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty (960-1279) and its Five Dynasties and Southern Kingdoms precursors presents the political history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. Its twelve chapters survey the personalities and events that marked the rise, consolidation, and demise of the Sung polity during an era of profound social, economic, and intellectual ferment. The authors place particular emphasis on the emergence of a politically conscious literati class during the Sung, characterized by the increasing importance of the examination system early in the dynasty and on the rise of the tao-hsueh (Neo-Confucian) movement toward the end. In addition, they highlight the destabilizing influence of factionalism and ministerial despotism on Sung political culture and the impact of the powerful steppe empires of the Khitan Liao, Tangut Hsi Hsia, Jurchen Chin, and Mongol Yüan on the shape and tempo of Sung dynastic events