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YIN YU TANG: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House
by Berliner, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0804834873
- ISBN 13
- 9780804834872
- Seller
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West Point, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2003. 178 pages. Yin Yu Tang (Shade, Shelter, Abundance) house in Huizhou, China, built around 1800 durng the late Qing dynasty. Eight generations of the family are chronicled in this book. A nice tight copy. Dj has light edgewear; sunned at spine; a bit rubbed overall. In new mylar. Still an attractive book!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.
Synopsis
In the late Qing dynasty, around the year 1800, a prosperous Chinese merchant named Huang built a house for his family in a remote village in Zhejiang province, southwest of Shanghai. He named the house "Yin Yu Tang" which means "Hall of Abundant Shelter"—implying the owner's desire that the building would shelter his descendants for many generations. By the mid-1990s, the surviving members of the Huang family had moved away from Yin Yu Tang to take jobs in the cities. In 2003 the house found a new "home" as a permanent exhibit in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. This book, with its room-by-room, generation-by-generation documentation of life in the house, serves as a unique and invaluable introduction to traditional Chinese family and village life. It explores the design and building methods, furnishings and heirlooms found in the house, while explaining the culture and traditions of the family who lived here—especially their love and respect for family and ancestors. With hundreds of photographs, scores of primary documents, and thousands of fascinating details, Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House offers a vivid portrait of everyday life in traditional China.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bertram Books And Fine Art
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H4841
- Title
- YIN YU TANG: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House
- Author
- Berliner, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0804834873
- ISBN 13
- 9780804834872
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- China
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Bertram Books And Fine Art
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West Point, Virginia
About Bertram Books And Fine Art
Bookseller for over 15 years in a brick and mortar in Williamsburg Va. Now selling primarily online Antiquarian, Collectible and General Stock books. Our stock includes Art, Antique Maps and antique Botanical Lithographs.
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