Palaces Pavilions And Gardens Created By Giuseppe Castiglione In The Imperial Grounds Of Yuan Ming Yuan At The Summer Palace In Pekin
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Palaces Pavilions And Gardens Created By Giuseppe Castiglione In The Imperial Grounds Of Yuan Ming Yuan At The Summer Palace In Pekin
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Author : Giuseppe Castiglione
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Palaces Pavilions And Gardens Created By Giuseppe Castiglione In The Imperial Grounds Of Yuan Ming Yuan At The Summer Palace In Pekin written by Giuseppe Castiglione and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Palaces Pavilions And Gardens Created By Giuseppe Castiglione In The Imperial Grounds Of Yuan Ming Yuan At The Summer Palace In Pekin
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Author : Giuseppe Castiglione
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Palaces Pavilions And Gardens Created By Giuseppe Castiglione In The Imperial Grounds Of Yuan Ming Yuan At The Summer Palace In Pekin written by Giuseppe Castiglione and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Engraving categories.
George Robert Loehr Jr 1892 1974 Und Die Forschung Ber Die Pekinger Jesuitenk Nstler
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Author : Hartmut Walravens
language : de
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-03-11
George Robert Loehr Jr 1892 1974 Und Die Forschung Ber Die Pekinger Jesuitenk Nstler written by Hartmut Walravens and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-11 with History categories.
Die Pekinger Jesuitenkünstler wie Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) und Jean-Denis Attiret (1702-1768) sind heute ein attraktives Forschungsthema, da sie als kaiserliche Hofmaler eine bedeutenden Einfluß auf die Entwicklung der Malerei nahmen: ihre zahlreichen, teils noch erhaltenen Werke verbinden europäische und chinesische Elemente und spielten eine wichtige Rolle im Wissenstransfer zwischen China und Europa. Castiglione entwarf die europäischen Paläste (Xiyanglou) im kaiserlichen Garten Yuanmingyuan, Michel Benoist (1715-1774) kreierte Wasserspiele nach dem Vorbild von Versailles, die den Kaiser begeisterten. Die Forschungen basieren zum großen Teil auf den Pionierarbeiten von George Robert Loehr (1892-1974), der in Peking als Sprachlehrer tätig war. In seiner 1940 in Rom erschienenen Dissertation würdigte er erstmals umfassend Castiglione und in späteren Aufsätzen Attiret, Moggi (1684-1761) und Benoist. Im vorliegenden Band werden diese ursprünglich italienisch, französisch und englisch erschienenen Materialien erstmals in kommentierter und aktualisierter Form mit erweiterter Illustrierung und Register vorgelegt, da das Thema bislang im deutschen Sprachraum kaum behandelt worden ist. Hinzu kommt eine autobiographische Skizze von Loehr, eine ausführliche Biographie Attirets von seinem Mitbruder Jean Joseph Amiot (1718-1793), eine Studie über die Wasserspiele der europäischen Paläste sowie eine umfangreiche, aktuelle und kommentierte Forschungsbibliographie zu den Jesuitenkünstlern. Mitarbeiter des Bandes sind der Ingenieur Prof. Albert Koenig (Univ. Hong Kong), der Museumsdirektor Claudius Müller (früher Museum für Völkerkunde München), der Sinologe Prof. Eugenio Menegon (Boston University) und die Religionswissenschaftlerin Marion Steinicke (Universität Landau). Mit Absicht ist nicht eine neue Gesamtdarstellung versucht worden (was einfacher gewesen wäre), sondern die grundlegenden Materialien sind übersetzt, ergänzt und kommentiert worden, sodass die Entwicklung der Forschung und ihre Quellen nachzuverfolgen sind. Zugleich wird damit die weitere Untersuchung des komplexen Themas erleichtert.
The Concrete Dragon
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Author : Thomas J. Campanella
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-03-20
The Concrete Dragon written by Thomas J. Campanella and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-20 with Architecture categories.
China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, radically transforming both city and countryside in its wake. The speed and scale of China's urban revolution challenges nearly all our expectations about architecture, urbanism and city planning. China's ambition to be a major player on the global stage is written on the skylines of every major city. This is a nation on the rise, and it is building for the record books. China is now home to some of the world's tallest skyscrapers and biggest shopping malls; the longest bridges and largest airport; the most expansive theme parks and gated communities and even the world's largest skateboard park. And by 2020 China's national network of expressways will exceed in length even the American interstate highway system. China's construction industry, employing a workforce equal to the population of California, has been erecting billions of square feet of housing and office space every year. But such extensive development has also meant demolition on a scale unprecedented in the peacetime history of the world. Nearly all of Beijing's centuries-old cityscape has been bulldozed in recent years, and redevelopment in Shanghai has displaced more families than 30 years of urban renewal in the United States. China's cities are also rapidly sprawling across the landscape, churning precious farmland into a landscape of superblock housing estates and single-family subdivisions laced with highways and big-box malls. In a mere generation, China's cities have undergone a metamorphosis that took 150 years to complete in the United States. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in world urban history. The book surveys the driving forces behind the great Chinese building boom, traces the historical precedents and global flows of ideas and information that are fusing to create a bold new Chinese cityscape, and considers the social and environmental impacts of China's urban future. The Concrete Dragon provides a critical overview of contemporary Chinese urbanization in light of both China's past as well as earlier episodes of rapid urban development elsewhere in the world--especially that of the United States, a nation that itself once set global records for the speed and scale of its urban ambitions.
Liberal Barbarism
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Author : E. Ringmar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-09-18
Liberal Barbarism written by E. Ringmar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-18 with Social Science categories.
In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the greatest collections of works of art ever assembled. The intellectual puzzle which the book addresses concerns why the Europeans, bent on "civilizing" the Chinese, engaged in this act of barbarism. The answer is provided through an analysis of the performative aspect of the confrontation between Europe and China, focusing on the differences in the way their respective international systems were conceptualized. Ringmar reveals that the destruction of Yuanmingyuan represented the Europeans' campaign to "shock and awe" the Chinese, thereby forcing them to give up their way of organizing international relations. The contradictions which the events of 1860 exemplify - the contradiction between civilization and barbarism - is a theme running through all European (and North American) relations with the rest of the world since, including, most recently, the US war in Iraq.
China S Old Churches
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Author : Alan Richard Sweeten
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-12-16
China S Old Churches written by Alan Richard Sweeten and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-16 with History categories.
Alan Sweeten’s China’s Old Churches presents a long-term historical view of Catholicism in north China as seen through Western-style sacred structures. Using historical materials as well as architectural and visual evidence, he reveals churches’ former impact and their present-day legacy.
Mapping Chengde
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Author : Philippe Foret
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-06-01
Mapping Chengde written by Philippe Foret and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with Architecture categories.
The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.
Collecting And Displaying China S Summer Palace In The West
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Author : Louise Tythacott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-25
Collecting And Displaying China S Summer Palace In The West written by Louise Tythacott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-25 with Art categories.
In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.
Architecture And The Language Debate
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Author : Nicholas Temple
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Architecture And The Language Debate written by Nicholas Temple and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Architecture categories.
This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time – among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths – on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/philological studies, religious sermons and grammaticae, the book traces key periods when the emerging field of linguistics in early modern Italy impacted on the theory, design and symbolism of buildings.
The Culture Of War In China
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Author : Joanna Waley-Cohen
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2014-02-27
The Culture Of War In China written by Joanna Waley-Cohen and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-27 with History categories.
Was the primary focus of the Qing dynasty really civil rather than military matters? In this ground-breaking book, Joanna Waley-Cohen overturns conventional wisdom to put warfare at the heart of seventeenth and eighteenth century China. She argues that the civil and the military were understood as mutually complementary forces. Emperors underpinned military expansion with a wide-ranging cultural campaign intended to bring military success, and the martial values associated with it, into the mainstream of cultural life. The Culture of War in China is a striking revisionist history that brings new insight into the roots of Chinese nationalism and the modern militarized state.