The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China - Shaping the Expanse (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extreme Orient
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Garret Pagenstecher Olberding
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-074965-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN:	3-11-074965-3
Barcode:	9783110749656

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