新书：《Chinese Architecture：A History》

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Chinese ArchitectureA History

作者：Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

出版社：普林斯顿大学出版社 

出版时间：2019年5月

价格：65.00美元

ISBN：9780691169989

 400 pp. 8 3/4 x 11 1/2

本书简介

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to today
Throughout history, China has maintained one of the world’s richest built civilizations. The nation’s architectural achievements range from its earliest walled cities and the First Emperor’s vision of city and empire, to bridges, pagodas, and the twentieth-century constructions of the Socialist state. In this beautifully illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt presents the first fully comprehensive survey of Chinese architecture in any language. With rich political and historical context, Steinhardt covers forty centuries of architecture, from the genesis of Chinese building through to the twenty-first century and the challenges of urban expansion and globalism.
Steinhardt follows the extraordinary breadth of China’s architectural legacy—including excavation sites, gardens, guild halls, and relief sculpture—and considers the influence of Chinese architecture on Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Tibet. Architectural examples from Chinese ethnic populations and various religions are examined, such as monasteries, mosques, observatories, and tombs. Steinhardt also shows that Chinese architecture is united by a standardized system of construction, applicable whether buildings are temples, imperial palaces, or shrines. Every architectural type is based on the models that came before it, and principles established centuries earlier dictate building practices. China’s unique system has allowed its built environment to stand as a profound symbol of Chinese culture.
With unprecedented breadth united by a continuous chronological narrative, Chinese Architecture offers the best scholarship available on this remarkable subject for scholars, students, and general readers.

作者简介

NANCY S. STEINHARDT ，PhD, Harvard University, 1981，She is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania where she has taught since 1982.  She received her PhD at Harvard in 1981 and  was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1978-81. Steinhardt taught at Bryn Mawr from 1981-1982. She has broad research interests in the art and architecture of China and China’s border regions, particularly problems that result from the interaction between Chinese art and that of peoples to the North, Northeast, and Northwest.

Steinhardt is author or co-editor of Chinese Traditional Architecture (1984), Chinese Imperial City Planning (1990), Liao Architecture (1997), Chinese Architecture (2003), Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture (2005), Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts (2011), Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600 (2014), The Chinese Mosque (2015), Chinese Architecture: Twelve Lectures (2017), China: an Architectural History (under contract), and "The Borders of Chinese Architecture" (under contract) and more than 100 articles. She is a recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Getty Foundation, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Social Science Research Council, American Philosophical Society, Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, Van Berchem Foundation, and Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art.  She has given more than 300 public lectures or conference talks. Steinhardt is involved in international collaborations in China, Korea, Japan, and Mongolia.  She has been an advisor, guest curator, or author for exhibitions at China Institute, Asia Society, the Metropolitan Museum, Japan Society, Chicago Art Institute, Smart Museum, and the Penn Museum. 

Endorsements

“Chinese Architecture is a milestone in the field. This authoritative and lucid book represents the best scholarship today on the history of Chinese architecture in any language. The comprehensiveness of its scope and depth is unmatched and it sets the standard for how the history of Chinese architecture should be taught and studied.”—Wei-Cheng Lin, University of Chicago

“Unprecedented in quality and coverage, Chinese Architecture will reshape the study of an architectural and cultural tradition familiar to 1.3 billion people. This important, accessible book features major monuments as well as less commonly studied architectural types, such as mosques and regional traditions associated with China’s ethnic minorities. I know of no other volume with comparable scope.”—Tracy Miller, Vanderbilt University