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Chinese Architecture and Metaphor
Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building Manual
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Historical Tradition of Writing on Architecture: From Antiquity to the Mid-Tenth Century
- 2. From the Mujing to the Yingzao Fashi: The Rise of Building Manuals and the Construction of Architectural Knowledge
- 3. The Yingzao Fashi: The Making of Widespread Legitimated Building Knowledge
- 4. The Yingzao Fashi Architectural Terminology (I) Bracketing Likened to Flowers, Branches, and Foliage: Architectural Metaphors and Conceptualization in Tenth to Twelfth Century China
- 5. The Yingzao Fashi Architectural Terminology (II): The Interplay of Literature, Arts, and Craftsmanship
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Previous Scholarship on the YZFS
- Appendix 2. Architectural Types Glossed in the Erya and in the Shiming
- Appendix 3. Structural Elements Glossed in the Erya and in the Shiming
- Appendix 4. Entries on Architecture in the Taiping Yulan
- Appendix 5. Quotations of Classical Texts for Gong in the Erya Shu, the YZFS, and the Taiping Yulan
- Appendix 6. Architectural Terms in the Terminology Section of the YZFS as Compared with the Taiping Yulan and the Yiwen Leiju
- Appendix 7. Classics and Historical Sources Cited in the YZFS
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author