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Confucius' Courtyard - Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China (Paperback)
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Confucius' Courtyard - Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China (Paperback)
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For more than three thousand years, Chinese life - from the city
and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family
home - was configured around the courtyard. So too were the
accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and
institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how
the courtyard - that most singular and persistent architectural
form - holds the key to understanding, even today, much of Chinese
society and culture. Part architectural history, and part
introduction to the cultural and philosophical history of China,
the book explores the Chinese view of the world, and reveals the
extent to which this is inextricably intertwined with the ancient
concept of the courtyard, a place and a way of life which, it
appears, has been almost entirely overlooked in China since the
middle of the 20th century, and in the West for centuries. Along
the way, it provides an accessible introduction to the Confucian
idea of zhongyong ('the Middle Way'), the Chinese moral universe
and the virtuous good life in the absence of an awesome God, and
shows how these can only be fully understood through the humble
courtyard - a space which is grounded in the earth, yet open to the
heavens. Erudite, elegant and illustrated throughout by the
author's own architectural drawings and sketches, Confucius'
Courtyard weaves together architecture, philosophy and cultural
history to explore what lies at the very heart of Chinese
civilization.
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