TRACES OF THE SAGE: Monument, Materiality and the First Temple of Confucius
Language: English
Published by Uni Hawaii, Honolulu, 2016
Series: Book 3 of 6 - Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
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xix, 290 pp. 10 colour and 37 b/w illustrations. // The Temple of Confucius in Qufu in Shandong province, China, is the definitive monument to the ancient sage. This is a comprehensive and detailed account of the history and culture of the temple from its earliest times through to the present day.
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- Title
- TRACES OF THE SAGE: Monument, Materiality and the First Temple of Confucius
- Author
- Flath, James
- Publisher
- Uni Hawaii, Honolulu
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Good, unless otherwise noted.
- Binding
- Cloth.
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0824853709
- ISBN 13
- 9780824853709
- Dimensions
- 24x16cm
- Series
- Book 3 of 6: Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture
Traces of the Sage is the first comprehensive account of the history and material culture of Kong Temple. Following the temple's development through time and across space, it relates architecture to the practice of Confucianism, explains the temple's phenomenal perseverance, and explores the culture of building in China. Other chapters consider the problem of Confucian heritage conservation and development over the last hundred years―a period when the validity of Confucianism has been called into question―and the challenge of remaking Confucian heritage as a commercial enterprise. By reconstructing its ""social life,"" the study interprets Kong Temple as an active site of transaction and negotiation and argues that meaning does not hide behind architecture but emerges from the circulation and regeneration of its spaces and materials.
The most complete work on a seminal monument in Chinese history through millennia, Traces of the Sage will find a ready audience among cultural and political historians of imperial and modern China as well as students and scholars of architectural history and theory and Chinese ritual.
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About the Author
Ronald G. Knapp, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, New Paltz, where he taught from 1968 to 2001, has been carrying out research on the cultural and historical geography of China since 1965. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books concerning the vernacular architecture of China and Southeast Asia.
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