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

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

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China

Shaping the Expanse

Edited by: Garret Pagenstecher Olberding
Funded by: Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft

Volume 31 in the series Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l’Extrême Orient

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749823

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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.

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Garret Pagenstecher Olberding, University of Oklahoma, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Garret Pagenstecher Olberding Open Access Download PDF	1
External and Internal: Absolute and Relative Space in Song Literati Painting Martin J. Powers Open Access Download PDF	11
Producing Shu Culture: Why Painters Needed Court Titles in Tenth-Century Sichuan Foong Ping Open Access Download PDF	29
The Recollection of Place in Li Daoyuan’s Shuijing zhu Alexis Lycas Open Access Download PDF	55
Chuci and the Politics of Space under the Qin and Han Empires Vincent S. Leung Open Access Download PDF	77
A Tomb with a View: Axonometry in Early Chinese Cartography H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Open Access Download PDF	103
Spatial Conceptions of the Yellow River’s Origin in Medieval Chinese Texts Linda Rui Feng Open Access Download PDF	123
Remarks on the Mathematics and Philosophy of Space-time in Early Imperial China Daniel Patrick Morgan Open Access Download PDF	149
Diplomacy as Transgression in Early China Garret Pagenstecher Olberding Open Access Download PDF	189
Index Open Access Download PDF	217

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and graduate students in history of science, geography, art history, religious studies, literature, and sinology.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 222
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 22
Keywords: Premodern China; spatial imagination; physical space

eBook

Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110749823

Hardcover

Published: February 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110749656

Paperback

Planned Publication: October 23, 2023
ISBN: 9783111358468