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The Forbidden City - Mr Geremie R. Barme

The Forbidden City

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2012
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-06396-9 (ISBN)
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The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) lying at the heart of Beijing formed the hub of the Celestial Empire for five centuries. Designed to overawe the visitor with the power of imperial China, the Forbidden City remains one of the true wonders of the world. This title provides a history of the culture, politics, and architecture of the Forbidden City.
In this title, you can read supplementary material prepared by Geremie Barme Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the "Wonders of the World" series (Part I and Part II). The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) lying at the heart of Beijing formed the hub of the Celestial Empire for five centuries. Over the past century it has led a reduced life as the refuge for a deposed emperor, as well as a heritage museum for monarchist, republican, and socialist citizens, and it has been celebrated and excoriated as a symbol of all that was magnificent and terrible in dynastic China's legacy. The Forbidden City's vermilion walls have fueled literary fantasies that have become an intrinsic part of its disputed and documented history. Mao Zedong even considered razing the entire structure to make way for the buildings of a new socialist China. The fictions surrounding the Forbidden City have also had an international reach, and writers like Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mervyn Peake have all succumbed to its myths.
The politics it enshrined have provided the vocabulary of power that is used in China to the present day, though it is now better known as a film set or the background of displays of opera, rock, and fashion. Geremie Barme peels away the veneer of power, secrecy, inscrutability, and passions of imperial China, to provide a new and original history of the culture, politics, and architecture of the Forbidden City. Designed to overawe the visitor with the power of imperial China, the Forbidden City remains one of the true wonders of the world.

Geremie R. Barme is Professor of Chinese History and Founding Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University.

Reihe/Serie Wonders of the World
Zusatzinfo 32 halftones, 1 map
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass
Sprache englisch
Maße 114 x 184 mm
Themenwelt Reiseführer Asien China
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-674-06396-1 / 0674063961
ISBN-13 978-0-674-06396-9 / 9780674063969
Zustand Neuware
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