House, home, family : living and being Chinese

Knapp Ronald G. : 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. CONTENTS Foreword: Looking Back on Chinese Art, Architecture, and History Preface Acknowledgments 1 Chinas Houses, Homes, and Families Part One The house 2 The House: An Introduction 3 In Search of the Elusive Chinese House 4 House and Garden: Sanctuary for the Body and the Mind 5 Siting and Situating a Dwelling 6 Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present 7 Traditional Chinese Architecture and Furniture A Cultural Interpretation 8 Sheltering the Past: The Preservation of China's Old Dwellings Part Two The home and the family 9 The Meaning of Jia: An Introduction 10 House United, House Divided: Myths and Realities, Then and Now 11 The Inner Quarters: Oppression or Freedom? 12 Between House and Home: The Family in South China 13 Ancestral Halls: Family, Lineage, and Ritual 14 Reading the Text of the Home: Domestic Ritual Configuration through Print 15 The Symbolic Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Auspicious Nines in Traditional China 16 Making Room for Intimacy: Domestic Space and Conjugal Privacy in Rural North China Glossary References Contributors Index