Forbidden City

Name: Forbidden City
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ISBN: 9780195906080

ISBN-10: 019590608X

ISBN-13: 9780195906080

Edition: 1999

Authors: May Holdsworth, Carolyn Courtauld

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Halls of dazzling glory or an 'ill-omened pile of buildings' A sight unforgettably lovely or merely commonplace? Long shrouded in mystery, Beijing's Forbidden City has provoked all these conflicting descriptions. Built to a grand scale, its design determined by the art of fengsui, the Forbidden City was at once a palace and a prison. Good luck did not always bless its denizens, and life was cold, lonely and stifling for many of the emperors, empresses, and imperial concubines who lived within it. Today the palace receives many visitors, yet the realities of imperial life in the Forbidden City are stil little known. This illustrated introduction exposes the private world hidden behind…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.64" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Plan of the Forbidden City



Prologue: A Grand Audience



Capital of the Celestial Empire: The Forbidden City 1420-1911



Fearful Symmetry: Architecture and Fengshui



Diligent Administration: Ruling from the Forbidden City



The Jade Document: Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Forbidden City



Pleasures of an Imperial Life: Festivals, Theatre, and Summer Palaces



Good Housekeeping: Domestic Matters in the Forbidden City



A Passion for Collecting: Treasures of the Palace Museum


The Ming and Qing Emperors


Selected Bibliography


Index