Allegorical architecture : living myth and architectonics in southern China / Xing Ruan
- Bib ID:
- 3942830
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ruan, Xing, 1965-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2006
- xiii, 219 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780824821517
- 0824821513
- Series:
- Spatial habitus (Series)
- Summary:
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"Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular. It argues that Dong architecture symbolically resembles it inhabitants in many ways."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Architectonic fabrications of minorities
- 2. Myth and ritualistic postures
- 3. Choral symbolization
- 4. Type, myth, and heterogeneity
- 5. Out of time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Living myth and architectonics in southern China
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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