How Long to Read The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China

How Long Does it Take to Read The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China by Michelle H. Wang

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and together constitute the entire known corpus of ancient Chinese maps (ditu). A millennium separates them from the next available map from 1136 CE. Most scholars study them through the lens of modern, empirical definitions of maps and their use. This book offers an alternative view by drawing on methods not just from cartography but from art history, archaeology, and religion. It argues that, as tomb objects, the maps were designed to be simultaneously functional for the living and the dead-that each map was drawn to serve navigational purposes of guiding the living from one town to another as well as to diagram ritual order, thereby taming the unknown territory of the dead. In contrast with traditional scholarship, The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China proposes that ditu can "speak" through their forms. Departing from dominant theories of representation that forge a narrow path from form to meaning, the book braids together two main strands of argumentation to explore the multifaceted and multifunctional diagrammatic tradition of rendering space in early China"--

How long is The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China?

The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China by Michelle H. Wang is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China aloud.

What Reading Level is The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China?

The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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