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.
| ISBN: | 9783111358468 |
| Publication date: | 24th October 2023 |
| Author: | Garret P S Olberding |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 230 pages |
| Series: | Welten Ostasiens |
| Genres: |
Regional / International studies General and world history Australasian and Pacific history History of science |
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.
The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China features in the following genres: Regional / International studies, General and world history, Australasian and Pacific history, History of science
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The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China was written by Garret P S Olberding and published by De Gruyter
The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China has 230 pages
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