Structures of the Earth
The traditional Chinese notion of itself as the "middle kingdom"--literally the cultural and political center of the world--remains vital to its own self-perceptions and became foundational to Western…
Specifikacia Structures of the Earth
The traditional Chinese notion of itself as the "middle kingdom"--literally the cultural and political center of the world--remains vital to its own self-perceptions and became foundational to Western understandings of China. This worldview was primarily constructed during the earliest imperial unification of China during the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE-220 CE). But the fragmentation of empire and subsequent "Age of Disunion" (220-589 CE) that followed undermined imperial orthodoxies of unity, centrality, and universality. In response, geographical writing proliferated, exploring greater spatial complexities and alternative worldviews.This book is the first study of the emergent genre of geographical writing and the metageographies that structured its spatial thought during that period. Early medieval geographies highlighted spatial units and structures that the Qin-Han
History of the Theory of Structures
Social Structures of the Economy
Statics of Structures
Dynamics of structures
Dynamics of structures
The Pillars of the Earth
The Runes of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth
The Ends of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth
The Ends of the Earth
Lords of the Earth
Interior of the Earth