The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China Shaping the Expanse Hsu-Tang, H.M. Agnes contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Leung, Vincent S. contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Lycas, Alexis contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Morgan, Daniel Patrick contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Pagenstecher Olberding, Garret contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Pagenstecher Olberding, Garret editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Ping, Foong contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Powers, Martin J. contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Rui Feng, Linda contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Walter de Gruyter & Co text dictionary Electronic books. gw DE 2022 2022 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (VIII, 222 pages). This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five general areas: pictorial representation, literary description, cartographic mappings, and the intertwining of heavenly and earthly space. It recommends that the spatial imagination in the pre-modern world cannot adequately be captured using a linear, militarily framed conceptualization. The scope and varying perspectives on the spatial imagination analyzed in the volume's essays reveal a complex range of aspects that informs how space was designed and utilized. Due to the complexity and advanced scholarly level of the papers, the primary readership will be other scholars and advanced graduate students in history, history of science, geography, art history, religious studies, literature, and, broadly, sinology. Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- External and Internal: Absolute and Relative Space in Song Literati Painting -- Producing Shu Culture: Why Painters Needed Court Titles in Tenth-Century Sichuan -- The Recollection of Place in Li Daoyuan's Shuijing zhu -- Chuci and the Politics of Space under the Qin and Han Empires -- A Tomb with a View: Axonometry in Early Chinese Cartography -- Spatial Conceptions of the Yellow River's Origin in Medieval Chinese Texts -- Remarks on the Mathematics and Philosophy of Space-time in Early Imperial China -- Diplomacy as Transgression in Early China -- Index specialized ed. by Garret Pagenstecher Olberding. In English. China Civilization 1644-1912 Chine Civilisation 1644-1912 HISTORY / Asia / General Civilization China 1644-1912 fast DS754.14 . E947 2022 951.03 Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient : Im Auftrag der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft - On behalf of the Swiss Asia Society - Au nom de la Société Suisse-Asie , 31 9783110749823 3110749823 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9783110749823 DEGRU 220302 20240212223746.5 in00004776212 eng