Feng Shui and the City: The Private and Public Spaces of Chinese Geomancy

by Xiaoqing Zhang and Manuela Madeddu

Feng Shui and the City analyses the past and contemporary influences of traditional geomancy on Chinese built environments across three domains: domestic spaces, spaces of commercial development and the public realm. Using Lefebvre's notion of absolute and abstract space--spaces of 'symbolic existence' and 'everyday life' versus spaces of domination and control, it tracks evolving attachment to, and use of, Feng Shui in Guangdong...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811608466
• ISBN13: 9789811608469
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"