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Author Miller, Tracy, 1966-

Title The divine nature of power : Chinese ritual architecture at the sacred site of Jinci / Tracy Miller
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007

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Description xx, 265 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Series Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 62
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 62
Contents Map of Song, Xi Xia, and Liao empires, ca. 1100 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jinci : place and name -- 3. Taiyuan and the first ancestor of Jin -- 4. The shrine of Shu Yu of Tang -- 5. The Jin River and the emergence of the spirit of the Jin Springs -- 6. The Song-dynasty temple to the Sage Mother -- 7. Manipulating the spirits of Jin -- 8. Conclusion : the temple and shrine as an expression of divine presence -- App. A. Dates of extant structures in the Jinci complex
Summary "Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on the research of archaeologists, anthropologists, and religious, social, and art historians, this book seeks to recover the motivations behind the creation of religious art, including temple buildings, sculptures, and wall paintings. Through an examination of building style and site organization, the author illuminates the multiplicity of meanings projected by buildings within a sacred landscape and the ability of competing patronage groups to modify those meanings with text and context, thereby affecting the identity of the deities housed within them. This study of the art and architecture of Jinci is thus about divine creations and their power to create divinity."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-256) and index
Subject Jin ci (Taiyuan, Shanxi Sheng, China)
Architecture and religion.
Architecture and state -- China -- Taiyuan (Shanxi Sheng)
Architecture -- China -- Taiyuan (Shanxi Sheng)
Author Harvard University. Asia Center.
Harvard-Yenching Institute.
LC no. 2006100699
ISBN 067402513X (cl : alk. paper)
9780674025134 (cl : alk. paper)
Other Titles Chinese ritual architecture at the sacred site of Jinci