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

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 ma...

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Main Author: Pagenstecher Olberding, Garret
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (222 p.)
ISBN:9783110749656
9783110749922
9783110749823