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Confucius' Courtyard
Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China
Taschenbuch von Xing Ruan
Sprache: Englisch

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For more than three thousand years, Chinese life - from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home - was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how the courtyard - that most singular and persistent architectural form - holds the key to understanding, even today, much of Chinese society and culture.

Part architectural history, and part introduction to the cultural and philosophical history of China, the book explores the Chinese view of the world, and reveals the extent to which this is inextricably intertwined with the ancient concept of the courtyard, a place and a way of life which, it appears, has been almost entirely overlooked in China since the middle of the 20th century, and in the West for centuries. Along the way, it provides an accessible introduction to the Confucian idea of zhongyong ('the Middle Way'), the Chinese moral universe and the virtuous good life in the absence of an awesome God, and shows how these can only be fully understood through the humble courtyard - a space which is grounded in the earth, yet open to the heavens.

Erudite, elegant and illustrated throughout by the author's own architectural drawings and sketches, Confucius' Courtyard weaves together architecture, philosophy and cultural history to explore what lies at the very heart of Chinese civilization.
For more than three thousand years, Chinese life - from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home - was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how the courtyard - that most singular and persistent architectural form - holds the key to understanding, even today, much of Chinese society and culture.

Part architectural history, and part introduction to the cultural and philosophical history of China, the book explores the Chinese view of the world, and reveals the extent to which this is inextricably intertwined with the ancient concept of the courtyard, a place and a way of life which, it appears, has been almost entirely overlooked in China since the middle of the 20th century, and in the West for centuries. Along the way, it provides an accessible introduction to the Confucian idea of zhongyong ('the Middle Way'), the Chinese moral universe and the virtuous good life in the absence of an awesome God, and shows how these can only be fully understood through the humble courtyard - a space which is grounded in the earth, yet open to the heavens.

Erudite, elegant and illustrated throughout by the author's own architectural drawings and sketches, Confucius' Courtyard weaves together architecture, philosophy and cultural history to explore what lies at the very heart of Chinese civilization.
Über den Autor
Xing RUAN was born in Kunming, China in 1965. He studied architecture, and currently is Guangqi Chair Professor and Dean at the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was Professor of Architecture at Sydney's University of New South Wales (2004-20). His books include: Fusheng Jianzhu (Floating Life and Architecture), 2020; Allegorical Architecture, 2006; New China Architecture, 2006; Hand and Mind, 2018; Topophilia and Topophobia, 2007. He is co-editor, with Ronald Knapp, of the book series Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture.
Zusammenfassung
Explores the previously overlooked concept of the Chinese 'Good Life' - a virtuous, yet pleasurable, secular existence - founded in ancient principles, and key to understanding much of Chinese society and culture, even today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue Part One: Heaven
A Panacea from the Courtyard

1. What Makes the Chinese House
I. The Conceptual Parti
II. Confucius' Courtyard
III. From Object to Void

2. Heaven and What is Below
I. The Chinese Tian
II. The King's City
III. The Built World and the Literary World

Part Two: Heaven and Earth
Equilibrium in the Courtyard

3. The Divergent Tower
I. The Emergence of the Individual and Metaphysics
II. Immortality and Freedom Imagined

4. Secluded World and Floating Life
I. The Middling Hermit
II. The Artful Transition

5. A Deceiving Symbol
I. The Travelling Merchant and the Oddity of their Courtyard
II. Women in Chinese Marriage and Household
III. Behind Good Taste and Refinement

6. Literary Enchantment and the Garden House
I. Li Yü's World
II. Internalized Garden and the "Horizon" beyond
III. Courtyard and Decorum

7. The Golden Mean Finely Tuned
I. The Anatomy of a Beijing Quadrangle
II. Life and Ambience in the Hutong
III. The City as a Large Quadrangle
IV. Distinctive Character versus Uniformity

8. Living like the Chinese
I. The "Guest" Chinese and their Chinese Courtyards
II. Chinese Form and Exotic Meaning

Part Three: Earth
The Emancipation of Desire and the Loss of Courtyard

9. The Irresistible Metropolis
I. Modern City Born of Refugee Crisis
II. From Diminishing Courtyard to Porous House

10. The Assault of Modernity
I. Quadrangle without the Confucian World
II. The Lingering Courtyard
III. Nothingness, Horizon and Discreet Pleasure

Epilogue
The Four or the Five

Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Architektur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 368
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350217614
ISBN-10: 1350217611
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ruan, Xing
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 213 x 137 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Xing Ruan
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
preigu-id: 119811609
Über den Autor
Xing RUAN was born in Kunming, China in 1965. He studied architecture, and currently is Guangqi Chair Professor and Dean at the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was Professor of Architecture at Sydney's University of New South Wales (2004-20). His books include: Fusheng Jianzhu (Floating Life and Architecture), 2020; Allegorical Architecture, 2006; New China Architecture, 2006; Hand and Mind, 2018; Topophilia and Topophobia, 2007. He is co-editor, with Ronald Knapp, of the book series Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture.
Zusammenfassung
Explores the previously overlooked concept of the Chinese 'Good Life' - a virtuous, yet pleasurable, secular existence - founded in ancient principles, and key to understanding much of Chinese society and culture, even today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue Part One: Heaven
A Panacea from the Courtyard

1. What Makes the Chinese House
I. The Conceptual Parti
II. Confucius' Courtyard
III. From Object to Void

2. Heaven and What is Below
I. The Chinese Tian
II. The King's City
III. The Built World and the Literary World

Part Two: Heaven and Earth
Equilibrium in the Courtyard

3. The Divergent Tower
I. The Emergence of the Individual and Metaphysics
II. Immortality and Freedom Imagined

4. Secluded World and Floating Life
I. The Middling Hermit
II. The Artful Transition

5. A Deceiving Symbol
I. The Travelling Merchant and the Oddity of their Courtyard
II. Women in Chinese Marriage and Household
III. Behind Good Taste and Refinement

6. Literary Enchantment and the Garden House
I. Li Yü's World
II. Internalized Garden and the "Horizon" beyond
III. Courtyard and Decorum

7. The Golden Mean Finely Tuned
I. The Anatomy of a Beijing Quadrangle
II. Life and Ambience in the Hutong
III. The City as a Large Quadrangle
IV. Distinctive Character versus Uniformity

8. Living like the Chinese
I. The "Guest" Chinese and their Chinese Courtyards
II. Chinese Form and Exotic Meaning

Part Three: Earth
The Emancipation of Desire and the Loss of Courtyard

9. The Irresistible Metropolis
I. Modern City Born of Refugee Crisis
II. From Diminishing Courtyard to Porous House

10. The Assault of Modernity
I. Quadrangle without the Confucian World
II. The Lingering Courtyard
III. Nothingness, Horizon and Discreet Pleasure

Epilogue
The Four or the Five

Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Architektur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 368
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350217614
ISBN-10: 1350217611
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ruan, Xing
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 213 x 137 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Xing Ruan
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
preigu-id: 119811609
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