Details
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Title
Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House
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Author
Nancy Berliner
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
1st Edition
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
192
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing, Boston
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Date
August 2003
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Illustrated
Yes
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Bookseller's Inventory #
BOS-F-11g-01385
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ISBN
9780804834872 / 0804834873
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Weight
2.51 lbs (1.14 kg)
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Dimensions
10.1 x 9.42 x 0.83 in (25.65 x 23.93 x 2.11 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Architecture, Domestic - China - Huizhou Diqu, Vernacular architecture - China - Huizhou
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2002041621
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Dewey Decimal Code
728.372
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Summary
In the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) a Chinese merchant named Huang built a house for his family in a small, remote village in the southeastern region of Huizhou in China's Anhui Province. He named the house Yin Yu Tang. For seven generations, members of the Huang family ate, slept, laughed, cried, married, and gave birth in the house. By the mid-1990s, the surviving Huang family members moved away leaving the house empty and abandoned. In 1997 the house was moved to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and opened as a permanent exhibit.Yin Yu Tang provides a fascinating, in-depth look at Chinese domestic culture, architecture, craftsmanship, history, and the impact of these influences on individual lives. Nancy Berliner, one of the country's foremost experts on Chinese furniture and arts, takes the reader on a tour of this unique homestead providing detail on Yin Yu Tang's architecture, construction methods, decoration, furniture, and family heirlooms. She weaves a story of Chinese domestic life, culture, and the remarkable restoration and reconstruction at the Peabody Essex Museum in America.
From the publisher
Nancy Berliner is curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and has curated exhibits of Chinese arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Asia Society of Houston, and the ChinaInstitute. She has written for the New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Asian Art, and American Craft magazines, and is the author of Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Century, and Chinese Folk Art.
First line
Huizhou is the traditional name, dating back to the Song dynasty (960-1279), of a prefecture in the southeastern corner of Anhui Province 223.7 miles (360 km) southwest of Shanghai.
Media reviews
"This book is recommended…for the Chinese history and culture sections of both public and academic libraries."—Library Journal
About the author
Nancy Berliner is curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and has curated exhibits of Chinese arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Asia Society of Houston, and the ChinaInstitute. She has written for the New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Asian Art, and American Craft magazines, and is the author of Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Century, and Chinese Folk Art.
