The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China (Buch)

The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China

Buch

Shaping the Expanse
Herausgeber: Garret Pagenstecher Olberding

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De Gruyter, 10/2023
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-13: 9783111358468
Bestellnummer: 11617591
Umfang: 234 Seiten
Gewicht: 354 g
Maße: 230 x 155 mm
Stärke: 13 mm
Erscheinungstermin: 24.10.2023
Serie: ISSN - Band 31
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

Klappentext

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.