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Feng Shui and The City: Private Public Spaces of Chinese Geomancy
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Feng Shui and The City: Private Public Spaces of Chinese Geomancy
Current price: $59.99
Barnes and Noble
Feng Shui and The City: Private Public Spaces of Chinese Geomancy
Current price: $59.99
Size: Hardcover
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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
and
—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 and Hong Kong. The book seeks to understand the changing role of Feng Shui in modern urban development and its regulation, and to question what constitutes authentic Feng Shui today.