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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2019) 78 (3): 349–350.
Published: 01 September 2019
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2019) 78 (3): 349–350.
Published: 01 September 2019
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2014) 73 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 March 2014
Abstract
The impact of foreign building traditions on Chinese architecture had been limited until the beginning of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, dramatic changes in construction occurred as the result of the introduction of Western architectural practice and methods of architectural history, as China transformed from an imperial society to a republic to a communist state. In Chinese Architectural History in the Twenty-First Century, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt examines the state of architectural history in China at the end of the twentieth century and the impact that recent social and cultural transformations are likely to have on the field in the future.
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2011) 70 (3): 388–389.
Published: 01 September 2011
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2008) 67 (3): 330–361.
Published: 01 September 2008
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2002) 61 (4): 537–548.
Published: 01 December 2002
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1993) 52 (1): 113–114.
Published: 01 March 1993
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1992) 51 (4): 461–466.
Published: 01 December 1992
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1992) 51 (2): 229–230.
Published: 01 June 1992
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1988) 47 (3): 306–308.
Published: 01 September 1988
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1988) 47 (1): 57–73.
Published: 01 March 1988
Abstract
The structure of buildings from the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) in China has heretofore been studied alternatively as the culmination of earlier periods of architectural styles from about the 10th century and as the beginning of a new phase in Chinese construction that lasts until the beginning of the Modern period in the 19th century. This article takes as its focus halls built at palatial or religious complexes in north China during the Yuan period to determine if a period style can be defined within the homogeneous timber frame building tradition. Studying the buildings and their details through surviving architecture and fragments, contemporary descriptions, and contemporary painting, the investigation concludes that, although the Yuan period may be termed transitional, its buildings are more closely allied with the pre-Yuan than the post-Yuan period, especially as the earlier style is known from the illustrated construction manual Yingzao Fashi.
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1988) 47 (1): 95–96.
Published: 01 March 1988
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1987) 46 (1): 91–94.
Published: 01 March 1987
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1986) 45 (4): 339–357.
Published: 01 December 1986
Abstract
Historians of premodern Chinese urbanism have long assumed that the origins of the Chinese imperial city plan stem from a passage in the Kaogong Ji (Record of Trades) section of the classical text Rituals of Zhou which describes the city of the King of Zhou. Taking this description as the single source of all Chinese capitals, these historians have gone on to write that any Chinese imperial city constructed during the last 2,000 years not only has much in common with any other one, but that all have been built according to a single scheme. Yet the plans of the two most important Chinese imperial cities, Chang'an in the 7th to 9th century, and Beijing after the 14th century, indicate that a crucial feature of the Chinese imperial urban plan, the position of the imperial palaces, is in the north center at Chang'an and roughly in the exact center at Beijing, thereby dispelling the myth of the direct descent of all Chinese imperial city plans from the King of Zhou's city. Moreover, an examination of excavated cities of the first millennium B. C. shows that the Chang'an plan, the Beijing plan, and a third type, the double city, have their origins in China before the 1st century A. D., when the Kaogong Ji is believed to have been written. Moreover, all three city plan types can be traced through several thousand years of Chinese city building. After stating the hypothesis of three lineages of Chinese imperial city building, the paper illustrates and briefly comments on the key examples of each city type through history. More than 20 cities are involved in understanding the evolution of the imperial Chinese plans. Thus this paper also includes many Chinese capital plans heretofore unpublished in a Western language. The plan of Chang'an is different from that of Beijing because the latter city was built on the ruins of a city designed anew by the Mongol ruler of China, Khubilai Khan, with the intent of adhering to the prescribed design of the Kaogong Ji; whereas Chang'an was built according to a plan used by native and non-Chinese rulers of China only until the advent of Mongolian rule (with one exception.) Finally, this paper examines the assumption that there was little variation in Chinese imperial city building. A main reason for the assumed uniformities in Chinese capitals is because the imperial city is traditionally one of the most potent symbols of imperial rule, such that digression from it might imply less than legitimate rulership. Thus it can be shown that Chinese and non-Chinese dynasties had their actual city schemes amended for the historical record through the publication of fictitious city plans.
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (1981) 40 (2): 144–145.
Published: 01 May 1981