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The art of terrestrial diagrams in early China /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The art of terrestrial diagrams in early China // Michelle H. Wang.
Author:	Wang, Michelle H.,
Description:	236 pages :illustrations (chiefly color), maps ;27 cm
[NT 15003449]:	Introduction: The work of diagrams -- Zhongshan and plans for life after death -- Fangmatan and the bureaucratization of space -- Mawangdui and Earthly Topologies of Design -- Mawangdui and the art of strategy -- Coda: Tunnel vision.
Subject:	Cartography - History. - China -
Subject:	China - Antiquities. -
ISBN:	9780226827469

The art of terrestrial diagrams in early China /
Wang, Michelle H.,

The art of terrestrial diagrams in early China /Michelle H. Wang. - 236 pages :illustrations (chiefly color), maps ;27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The work of diagrams -- Zhongshan and plans for life after death -- Fangmatan and the bureaucratization of space -- Mawangdui and Earthly Topologies of Design -- Mawangdui and the art of strategy -- Coda: Tunnel vision.

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and together constitute the entire known corpus of ancient Chinese maps (ditu). A millennium separates them from the next available map from 1136 CE. Most scholars study them through the lens of modern, empirical definitions of maps and their use. This book offers an alternative view by drawing on methods not just from cartography but from art history, archaeology, and religion. It argues that, as tomb objects, the maps were designed to be simultaneously functional for the living and the dead-that each map was drawn to serve navigational purposes of guiding the living from one town to another as well as to diagram ritual order, thereby taming the unknown territory of the dead. In contrast with traditional scholarship, The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China proposes that ditu can "speak" through their forms. Departing from dominant theories of representation that forge a narrow path from form to meaning, the book braids together two main strands of argumentation to explore the multifaceted and multifunctional diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China"--

ISBN: 9780226827469

LCCN: 2022051896Subjects--Topical Terms:

2168194
Cartography
--History.--ChinaSubjects--Geographical Terms:

716519
China
--Antiquities.

LC Class. No.: GA1123.1.A1 / W36 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 526.0931

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