Yuan by Nancy Steinhardt - 9780691240169

YuanChinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire\nAuthor(s): Nancy Steinhardt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691240169, 978-0691240169\nSynopsis\nA monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China\n\nThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and stages. With a history enlivened by the likes of Khubilai Khan and Marco Polo, this spectacular empire spanned the breadth of China and far, far beyond, but its rulers were Mongols. Yuan presents the first comprehensive study in English of the architecture of China under Mongol rule.\n\nIn this richly illustrated book, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt looks at cities such as the legendary Shangduinspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridges Xanaduas well as the architecture the Mongols encountered on their routes of co.