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02482 a2200205 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781350217614 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
720.103 |
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RUA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ruan, Xing |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Confucius courtyard : architecture, philosophy and the good life in China |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Bloomsburry Publishing |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xlv,320p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Contents<br/>List of Illustrations x<br/>Acknowledgements xxii<br/>Prologue xxv <br/>Part One: Heaven <br/>A Panacea from the Courtyard 1 <br/>1. What Makes the Chinese House 3<br/>I. The Conceptual Parti 5<br/>II. Confucius' Courtyard 10<br/>III. From Object to Void 21<br/>2. Heaven and What is Below 27<br/>I. The Chinese Tian 37<br/>II. The King's City 43<br/>III. The Built World and the Literary World <br/>Part Two: Heaven and Earth Equilibrium in the Courtyard 51<br/>3. The Divergent Tower 53<br/>I. The Emergence of the Individual and Metaphysics 56<br/>II. Immortality and Freedom Imagined 62<br/>4. Secluded World and Floating Life 75<br/>I. The Middling Hermit 77<br/>II. The Artful Transition 91<br/>5. A Deceiving Symbol 101<br/>I. The Travelling Merchant and the Oddity of their Courtyard 104<br/>II. Women in Chinese Marriage and Household 113<br/>III. Behind Good Taste and Refinement 116<br/>6. Literary Enchantment and the Garden House 129 <br/>I. Li Yü's World 131<br/>II. Internalized Garden and the ?Horizon? beyond 138<br/>III. Courtyard and Decorum 153<br/>7. The Golden Mean Finely Tuned 157<br/>I. The Anatomy of a Beijing Quadrangle 159<br/>II. Life and Ambience in the Hutong 164<br/>III. The City as a Large Quadrangle 175<br/>IV. Distinctive Character versus Uniformity 179<br/>8. Living like the Chinese 193<br/>I. The ?Guest? Chinese and their Chinese Courtyards 194<br/>II. Chinese Form and Exotic Meaning 204<br/>Part Three: Earth <br/>The Emancipation of Desire and the Loss of Courtyard 217<br/>9. The Irresistible Metropolis 219<br/>I. Modern City Born of Refugee Crisis 223<br/>II. From Diminishing Courtyard to Porous House 232<br/>10. The Assault of Modernity 245<br/>I. Quadrangle without the Confucian World 249<br/>II. The Lingering Courtyard <br/>III. Nothingness, Horizon and Discreet Pleasure 257<br/>Epilogue The Four or the Five 279<br/>Notes 283<br/>Index 307<br/> |
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Architecture and society -- China. |
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89788 |
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History of architecture,Asian history. |
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Architecture -- General. |
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Architecture -- History -- General |
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Courtyard houses -- China. |
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89789 |
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China -- Civilization -- Philosophy. |
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89790 |
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India |
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FP |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Courtyard houses -- China. |
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Buildings |
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Building--Tropical conditions |
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Building |
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Building--Design and construction |
