Title & Author:

House, home, family : living and being Chinese / edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo.

Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press ; New York : China Institute in America, ©2005.

Description:

xxi, 453 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Spatial habitus (Series)

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-439) and index.
Foreword : Looking back on Chinese art, architecture, and history / Wen Fong -- China's houses, homes, and families / Ronald G. Knapp -- The house : an introduction / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- In search of the elusive Chinese house / Ronald G. Knapp -- House and garden : sanctuary for the body and the mind / Joseph C. Wang -- Siting and situating a dwelling : Fengshui, house-building rituals, and amulets / Ronald G. Knapp -- Chinese architectural aesthetics : patterns of living and being between past and present / Cary Y. Liu -- Traditional Chinese architecture and furniture : a cultural interpretation / Kai-Yin Lo -- Sheltering the past : the preservation of China's old dwellings / Nancy Berliner -- The meaning of jia : an introduction / Nancy Jervis -- House united, house divided : myths and realities, then and now / Myron L. Cohen -- The inner quarters : oppression or freedom? / Francesca Bray -- Between house and home : the family in South China / David Faure -- Ancestral halls : family, lineage, and ritual / Puay-peng Ho -- Reading the text of the home : domestic ritual configuration through print / James A. Flath -- The symbolic seasonal round in house and palace : counting the auspicious nines in traditional China / Maggie Bickford -- Making room for intimacy : domestic space and conjugal privacy in rural North China / Yunxiang Yan.

Summary:

Drawing on the work of scholars in anthropology, architecture, art, art history, geography, and history, this book explores and analyzes the functional, social, and symbolic attributes of Chinese dwellings. It clarifies the diverse nature of house, home, and family in China.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780824828585 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0824828585 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780824829537 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0824829530 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic China.
Vernacular architecture China.
Architecture and society China.
Architecture Human factors China.
Symbolism in architecture China.
Architecture domestique Chine.
Architecture vernaculaire Chine.
Architecture et société Chine.
Architecture Facteurs humains Chine.
Symbolisme en architecture Chine.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture Human factors.
Symbolism in architecture.
Vernacular architecture.
Feng-Shui
Familie
Wohnen
Wohnkultur
Brauch
Möbel
Innenarchitektur
Haus
China.

Added entries:

Knapp, Ronald G., 1940-
Lo, Kai-Yin.
China Institute in America.
Spatial habitus (Series)

Living and being Chinese

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237386
Call No.: BIB 167201
Status: Available