EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wang Yangming, Tiananmen, Jiangshi

• School: McGill University
• Department: Asian Language & Literature
• Course: EAST 211
• Professor: Rebecca Robinson

Document Summary

Lecture outline: forbidden city, wang yangming, hopping vampires jiangshi. Timeline and outline: ming dynasty 1368-1644, art and architecture in the ming, education and new philosophic perspective, ming literature, women education, chines vampires. Architecture - the forbidden city: established capital in beijing in 1420, before they moved the government, they has to establish a palace, building the forbidden city. Made in wood, but many were remade due to fires: centre of the city of the beijing. Artificial hill, build by the soil dug up by the mote: forbidden city. 4: tiananmen gate, permission to enter the city, theres an inner city and an outer city with important structure for religious life, designed according to 11 century city building, aligned. Sitting in the north facing the south: remarkable achievement of the ming dynasty. Moved capital from nan jing to beijing to demonstrate his control over the north.