Xuemei Li

Broschiertes Buch

Architecture, Ritual and Cosmology in China

The Buildings of the Order of the Dong

Beschreibung

Drawing on the authorâ s extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongâ s buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dongâ s cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the architecture, and the symbolic meanings.

Autor

Xuemei Li holds a PhD in Architectural History and History from the Architectural School at Sheffield University. Her research on the vernacular architecture and traditional techniques of the Dong community has been published in the Journal of Landscape Research, the Journal of Architecture, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and the Journal of Architectural Research Quarterly. She has taught Architectural History and Theory, and Architectural Structure courses in the universities of America, Canada and China. She was Visiting Scholar in Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, at Columbia University, and Associate Professor in He Xiangning College of Art and Design at Zhongkai Agricultural University.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Architecture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 235mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781032133560
• ISBN-10: 1032133562
• Artikelnr.: 71913311