Courtyards have long been a fundamental aspect of traditional Chinese architecture ... and both influenced the language of literature and art. People used to exchange alcohol as a gift in a ...

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is a peer-reviewed ... to performance and visual arts, to architecture, to regional cultures, to print and material cultures. Our view of culture includes the ...

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

For questions on the function of elites and their relationship to society as a whole, European-American literature on China is of signifying importance: It largely deals with the organization of ...

Dongbei, as China’s cold and gritty north-east is known, has traditionally been more famous for its economic struggles than for its cultural exports. Once booming under Mao because of its coal ...

Treating architecture as a social ... Both tea and alcohol in traditional China were similarly aestheticized, and both influenced the language of literature and art. People used to exchange ...