Main entry:

Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman.

Title & Author:

Liao architecture / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.

Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©1997.

Description:

xv, 497 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-486) and index.
1. Introduction -- pt. I. The Timber Frame Tradition. 2. Dulesi. 3. Chinese Architecture before Dulesi. 4. Fengguosi. 5. Yingxian Timber Pagoda. 6. Liao Monasteries in the Western Capital. 7. Other Liao Buddhist Halls. 8. Song Wooden Halls at the Time of Liao. 9. Jin Architecture: A Liao Legacy? -- pt. II. The Funerary Tradition. 10. The Imperial Qidan Funerary Tradition. 11. Chinese Funerary Architecture before Qingling. 12. Liao Tombs beyond Qingling. 13. The Funerary Traditions of North and Northeast Asia -- pt. III. The Architectural Legacy of Liao. 14. Conclusion.

Summary:

Liao Architecture is a study of Buddhist halls, tombs, and pagodas built primarily through the patronage of Northeast Asian lords of Qidan nationality from the mid-tenth through the first decades of the twelfth century. During those years, North China was part of a larger Qidan empire known as the Liao dynasty. The Qidan, in the ninth century, were a seminomadic tribe living along China's northern and northeastern borders. Less than fifty years later, by the early years of the tenth century, they and other North Asia groups were confederated under the leadership of a Qidan chieftain named Abaoji. In 947 Abaoji's son established a Chinese-style dynasty named Liao. Liao territory stretched from the Gobi Desert, across Mongolia, into China's Northeast provinces (former Manchuria), and into Korea. It also included sixteen prefectures of North China.

ISBN:

0824818431 (alk. paper)
9780824818432 (alk. paper)
0614262046
9780614262049

Subject:

Birgittenkloster Uden
Buddhist monasteries China Liao River Region.
Building, Wooden China Liao River Region.
Sepulchral monuments China Liao River Region.
Architecture China History Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368.
Architecture Chine Histoire 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan)
Architecture Song-Yuan dynasties.
Buddhist monasteries.
Building, Wooden.
Sepulchral monuments.
Architektur
Buddhismus
Geschichte
Grabmal
Holzbau
Bouwkunst.
Architecture China Song-Yuan dynasties,960-1368.
Kloster.
China.
Liao-He-Gebiet

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 197115
Call No.: ID NA6046.L5.S74; ID:98-B566
Status: Available