The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China

The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China
Author: Garret Pagenstecher Olberding
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110749823

In der Reihe Welten Ostasiens der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft werden repräsentative, qualitativ hochstehende Forschungsarbeiten zu den ostasiatischen Kulturen und Gesellschaften in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart publiziert. Die Reihe nimmt Studien zu verschiedenen Bereichen wie Geschichte, Literatur, Philosophie, Politik und Kunst sowie Übersetzungen und Interpretationen von Quellentexten auf. Daneben bietet sie Arbeiten zu aktuellen Themen und Fragen an, die nicht nur einem wissenschaftlichen Zielpublikum, sondern auch einer breiter interessierten Leserschaft zugänglich sind. Die Reihe versteht sich als Forum für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus der Schweiz wie aus der internationalen Forschung. Die Hauptpublikationssprachen für die Monographien und Sammelbände sind Deutsch, Französisch und Englisch. Die Reihe wird von einem Herausgebergremium geleitet, das von führenden Fachvertreterinnen und Fachvertretern aus den jeweiligen akademischen Disziplinen beraten wird. La série Mondes de l'Extrême-Orient de la Société Suisse-Asie publie des recherches de qualité représentatives de la recherche académique sur les cultures et sociétés de l'Asie orientale. Elle propose des études dans des domaines tels que l'histoire, la littérature, la philosophie, la politique et l'art ainsi que les interprétations et les traductions de sources. Elle publie également des travaux qui traitent de questions plus actuelles ou immédiates avec le souhait de toucher, au-delà des cercles académiques, le grand public cultivé. La série est un forum pour les sciences humaines et sociales dans le domaine des études asiatiques en Suisse. Les travaux de la communauté scientifique internationale sont cependant les bienvenus.Les langues de publication sont l'allemand, l'anglais et le français. La série est dirigée par comité composé de chercheurs actifs dans les diverses disciplines des études extrême-orientales.

The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China

The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China
Author: Garret Pagenstecher Olberding
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110749920

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.

Unlocking the Chinese Gate

Unlocking the Chinese Gate
Author: Galia Dor
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438497547

Unlocking the Chinese Gate offers an innovative analysis of gates in early Chinese thought and material culture. Observing gates from various perspectives—including philosophy, architecture, and psychology—and through the conceptual lens of Chinese correlative thinking, Galia Dor conceptualizes the Chinese gate as a membrane-like apparatus that, from the space "in-between," efficaciously manifests (de) the Way (dao) into the "ten thousand" forms of actualized life. This methodology exposes an open-to-closed gradation between pairs of inside/outside (wai/nei) that resonates throughout the Chinese model of psychocosmic concentric circles. The consequential strategies (e.g., continuity/break, chaos/order) demonstrate how early Chinese cosmological, philosophical, and political idealities, as well as afterlife religious beliefs, were applied—including the various approaches to and practices of self-cultivation. The book sheds new light on ancient Chinese thought and material culture and offers points of comparison to Western thought and modern science, including a model of "decision-gating" that carries relevant implications and insights to our current lives.

Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

Chinese History in Geographical Perspective
Author: Yongtao Du
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 073917231X

The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the disputes over the identity of the former “outer zones” in the early Republican era; and from the universalistic imagination of “all-under-heaven” to the fraught processes of re-drawing a new set of nation-state boundaries in the twentieth century, the study of the dynamics of geography, broadly conceived, promises to provide insight into the contested development of the geographical entity which we, today, call 'China.'

Revolutionary Bodies

Revolutionary Bodies
Author: Emily Wilcox
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520300572

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Revolutionary Bodies is the first English-language primary source–based history of concert dance in the People’s Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, Emily Wilcox analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China’s dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author.

For Space

For Space
Author: Doreen Massey
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2005-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781412903622

Questioning the implicit assumptions that we make about space, this text considers conventional notions of social science, as well as demonstrating how a vigorous understanding of space can impact on political consequences.

The Fabric of Space

The Fabric of Space
Author: Matthew Gandy
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0262028255

A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London. Tracing the evolving relationships among modernity, nature, and the urban imagination, from different vantage points and through different periods, Gandy uses water as a lens through which to observe both the ambiguities and the limits of nature as conventionally understood. Gandy begins with the Parisian sewers of the nineteenth century, captured in the photographs of Nadar, and the reconstruction of subterranean Paris. He moves on to Weimar-era Berlin and its protection of public access to lakes for swimming, the culmination of efforts to reconnect the city with nature. He considers the threat of malaria in Lagos, where changing geopolitical circumstances led to large-scale swamp drainage in the 1940s. He shows how the dysfunctional water infrastructure of Mumbai offers a vivid expression of persistent social inequality in a postcolonial city. He explores the incongruous concrete landscapes of the Los Angeles River. Finally, Gandy uses the fictional scenario of a partially submerged London as the starting point for an investigation of the actual hydrological threats facing that city.

Imagination

Imagination
Author: Peter Murphy
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"By turns informative, infuriating and inspirational, Murphy, Peters and Marginson's Imagination is clearly the most critical of the three volumes in the series. Perhaps as a result, it is very good to think with." Andrew Miler, Professor of Cultural Studies, Monash University --Book Jacket.