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Author Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958-

Title Yin Yu Tang : the architecture and daily life of a Chinese house / Nancy Berliner.

Publication Info. Boston : Tuttle Pub., 2003.

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 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  728.37 BER    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 178 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm
Note Yin Yu Tang will open to the public in the Peabody Essex Museum, June 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 173) and index.
Contents Part 1: Huizhou: Mountains and merchants -- Part 2: Jia: Hometown and family -- Part 3: The architecture of Yin Yu Tang.
Form Also issued online.
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.
Also includes information on ancestor worship, Madame Cheng, Communist revolution, death, education, fengshui, fish pools, Huang Cun (village), Huizhou District, merchants and merchant lifestyle, tamped earth houses, weddings and marriage, women, Xiuning County, etc.
Subject Architecture, Domestic -- China -- Huizhou Diqu.
Vernacular architecture -- China -- Huizhou Diqu.
Huizhou Diqu (China) -- Social life and customs.
Huang family.
Woningen.
Dagelijks leven.
Added Author Peabody Essex Museum.
Other Form: Online version: Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958- Yin Yu Tang. Boston : Tuttle Pub., 2003 (OCoLC)607742689
ISBN 0804834873
9780804834872
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