Wei Zhao

Home Beyond the House

Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition, including identity, consanguinity, collectivity, social relations, land ownership, and rural lifestyle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781032280172
• ISBN-10: 1032280174
• Artikelnr.: 70353160

Autorenporträt

Wei (Windy) Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Louisiana Tech University. Zhao received a PhD in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research focuses on issues of social equity and sustainability, cultural identity and diversity, and the built environment of marginalized social groups in the context of globalization and climate change.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction.
Chapter 1: Evolving Rural China. Chapter 2: The Village Underneath the
Rock: The Cheng Family and the Vernacular Built Environment of Yanxia.
Chapter 3: From a Local Deity to a World Heritage: Formation and
Destruction of Vernacular Tradition. Chapter 4: From the Land: The
Foundation of Rural China. Chapter 5: Rooted in the Past: Where Ancestors
Lived. Chapter 6: Family as an Economic Entity: Divided Homes and Families.
Chapter 7: Home without the House: Eternal Jiaxiang. Chapter 8: On
Tradition. Chapter 9: Afterward. Epilogue. Index.