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A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China

The Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and stages. With a history enlivened by the likes of Khubilai Khan and Marco Polo, this spectacular empire spanned the breadth of China and far, far beyond, but its rulers were Mongols. Yuan presents the first comprehensive study in English of the architecture of China under Mongol rule.

In this richly illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt looks at cities such as the legendary Shangdu--inspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Xanadu--as well as the architecture the Mongols encountered on their routes of conquest. She examines the buildings and monuments of diverse faiths in China during the period, from Buddhist and Daoist to Confucian, Islamic, and Christian, as well as unusual structures such as observatories, archways, stone and metal buildings, and sarcophaguses. Steinhardt dispels long-standing views of the Mongols as destroyers of cities and architecture across Asia, showing how the khans and their families built more than they tore down. She demonstrates that the stipulations of the Chinese building system were powerful and resilient enough to guide the architecture that rose under Mongolian rule.

Drawing on Steinhardt's groundbreaking textual research in numerous languages as well as her pioneering fieldwork at sites across East Asia, Yuan will become the standard reference on this critical period of cultural and artistic exchange.

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• Preface(viii)
• Family Tree of Chinggis Khan(xi)
• Introduction: Mongol Lords, Chinese Architecture, Visions of Empire
• Chapter 1 Wall-Enclosed Spaces(10)
• Spaces of the Empire: Envisioned, Political, Seasonal, Pleasurable
• Four Capitals
• Walled Enclosures before Khubilai
• Mongolia and Eastern Russia
• South of Mongolia
• Chapter 2 The Century before the Mongol Century(66)
• Jin
• Song
• Chapter 3 Official Yuan Construction(104)
• Virtuous Tranquility Hall
• Observatory in Dengfeng
• Cloud Terrace at Juyong Pass
• Ren Renfa's Sluice
• Three Pavilions
• Two Towers
• Chapter 4 Halls to the Gods and of the Populace(116)
• Yonglegong
• Guangsheng Monastery
• Hancheng
• More Yuan Buildings in North China
• Yuan Buildings in Southeastern China
• Yuan Buildings in Southwestern China
• Yuan Wooden Halls Summarized
• Stone, Metal, and Brick
• Chapter 5 Architecture of Death, Private Life, and Popular Life(162)
• Architecture or Death
• Architecture of Private Life
• Stages
• Gardens
• Chapter 6 Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian Architecture(188)
• Chinese Monasteries for Muslim Prayer
• Muslim Burial in Yuan China
• Tibetan Pagodas in Chinese Monasteries
• Temple to Mani
• Churches
• Chapter 7 Rock-Carved Architecture and Freestanding Stone(210)
• Longshan
• Feilaifeng
• Baosheng Monastery
• Arzhai and Gansu
• Rock-Carved Architecture in Northwestern Iran
• Yangqunmiao
• Chapter 8 Yuan-Period Construction East of China(224)
• Koryo Architecture
• Japan's Buddhist Monasteries
• Conclusion: A Revisionist History: Chinese Architecture, Mongol Patrons, European Observers, East Asian Archaeologists(232)
• Notes(236)
• Bibliography(267)
• Character Glossary(306)
• Photo and Illustration Credits(315)
• Index(316)

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CHOICE Review

This groundbreaking survey provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated study of Chinese architecture from the 13th and 14th centuries, a period of Mongol rule. Steinhardt (Univ. of Pennsylvania), a renowned historian of Chinese architecture, seeks to redefine Yuan dynasty architecture by meticulously examining and analyzing a vast array of architectural remnants, which are reliably dated from the 1220s to the 1360s. This includes "dozens of cities, hundreds of freestanding structures, dozens of cave temples, and hundreds of tombs," (p. 9) with the goal of exploring their intricate style and patronage. Steinhardt is compelling in arguing that "Yuan architecture shares remarkably with the building systems of its predecessors of Song and Jin." (p. 233). This perspective offers a "revisionist" history of Yuan architecture, made possible by the numerous excavations of Yuan sites since the 2010s. The book is a rich repository of textual and visual sources, including maps, architectural plans, drawings, decorations, structures, mural paintings, and sculptures. It will serve as an indispensable reference for those researching and studying Yuan architecture and history. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. --Tang Li, University of Southern California Libraries

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Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her many books include Chinese Architecture (Princeton), winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, and China's Early Mosques .