Allegorical architecture : living myth and architectonics in southern China / Xing Ruan.

Main entry:

Ruan, Xing, 1965- author.

Title & Author:

Allegorical architecture : living myth and architectonics in southern China / Xing Ruan.

Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2006]
©2006

Description:

xiii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Series:

Spatial habitus

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index.
1. Architectonic fabrications of minorities -- 2. Myth and ritualistic postures -- 3. Choral symbolization -- 4. Type, myth, and heterogeneity -- 5. Out of time.

Summary:

"Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular. It argues that Dong architecture symbolically resembles it inhabitants in many ways."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780824821517 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0824821513 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Dong.
Ethnic architecture China, Southwest.
Vernacular architecture China, Southwest.
Symbolism in architecture China, Southwest.
Architecture dong.
Architecture ethnique Chine (Sud-Ouest)
Architecture vernaculaire Chine (Sud-Ouest)
Symbolisme en architecture Chine (Sud-Ouest)
Ethnic architecture
Symbolism in architecture
Vernacular architecture
Symbolik
Volksarchitektur
Southwest China
China Südwest
China (Südwest)

Added entries:

Spatial habitus (Series)

Living myth and architectonics in southern China

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252548
Call No.: BIB 182248
Status: Available

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