The Forbidden City
A Short History and Guide
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1999
Scala Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-962-86215-3-8 (ISBN)
Scala Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-962-86215-3-8 (ISBN)
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The Forbidden City in Beijing, the seat of Imperial power for five centuries, is one of the greatest sites in the world. Completed in 1420 during the Ming Dynasty, it was designed to convey the incredible wealth and status of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, the god-appointed link between the deity and his subjects. With vast courtyards, magnificent halls of audience and over nine thousand rooms, it is a palace and a city on a truly cosmic scale. Some 120 million people, more than the entire population of Europe, were ruled from the Forbidden City. The life of rigid protocol and ritual remained unchanged, frozen in time, until the Republican revolution meant the abdication of the last Emperor in 1912. The Forbidden City was renamed The Palace Museum and opened to the general public in 1924. With 100 illustrations, a newly designed plan and other maps, this is a superb and informative guide to a truly magnificent site.
Antony White is an art historian and a publisher. He has been working on illustrated books on the land and art of China for the past twenty-five years. Other publications include An Atlas of Western Art History, Facts on File, New York, 1994.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.1999 |
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Zusatzinfo | maps, plan |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 110 x 297 mm |
Themenwelt | Reiseführer ► Asien ► China |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 962-86215-3-X / 962862153X |
ISBN-13 | 978-962-86215-3-8 / 9789628621538 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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