Chinese Spatial Strategies : Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911 (Hardcover)

List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Beijing as a Critical ProblemIn Search of a Chinese SpaceOutline of the Research and the ArgumentA Note on Method1. A Geo-Political Project2. City Plan as IdeologyA Classical TraditionNeo-Confucianism3. Social Space of the CityA City of CitiesSpace of the StateSpace of SocietyConcluding Notes 1: Architecture of the City and the Land4. A Sea of Walls: The Purple Forbidden Palace5. The Palace: Framing a Political LandscapeThe Inner Court as a Corporeal SpaceThe Outer Court as an Institutional SpaceA Composition of Forces6. The Palace: a BattlefieldFlows of Reports and DirectivesDefenceRecurring Crises7. Constructs of AuthorityLegalism and The Art of War Vis-a-vis the Panopticon: Two Ages of ReasonConcluding Notes 2: Architecture as a Machine of the State8. A Religious DiscourseComposing and Building the DiscoursePerforming an Ideology9. Formal Compositions: Visual and ExistentialBeijing as a ScrollVis-a-vis 'Cartesian Perspectivalism': Two Ways of SeeingConcluding Notes 3: Architecture of HorizonAppendix: dynasties, reigns and emperorsNotesBibliographyIndex