Handout - Lecture 09

The University of Hong Kong

Common Core Course 2011 – 2012

China: Culture, State and Society

Chinese House and Garden: Architecture, Landscape, and Material Culture (CCCH 9001)

 

Lecture 09 (30/11/2011)

Interior, Furniture and Daily Life

1. Furniture: Culture, Style and Type

1.                  Culture and Furniture in History

i.                    Li  禮:  Ritual and Manner

ii.                  From seating on the ground to seating on chairs

ii. From low-heel to high-leg furniture

2.                  Evolving Styles 

i.                    The elegance in Ming Style Furniture明式家具

ii.                   The decoration in Qing Style Furniture清式家具

3.                  Type of Chinese Furniture

i.          Yokeback Armchair官帽椅, Roundback Armchair圈椅, Folded Roundback Armchair交椅, Stool 凳, Folded Stool 交凳, Bench 條凳

ii. Coach Bed榻/ 羅漢床, Canopy Bed架子床

iii.       Kang Table炕桌, Square Table 方桌/八仙桌, Painting Table畫案, Altar Table 案

iv.       Cabinet 櫃

v. Shelf, Screen and others架, 圍屏

2. Materials and Craft

1.      Carpenter’s Tradition

i.                    Book of Lu Ban 魯班經

ii.                  Apparatus for Construction

2.       Wood and Workmanship

i.                    Type of Wood: Scented Rosewood黃花梨木, Mahogany 酸枝木, Red Sandalwood 紫壇木, Chicken Wingwood雞翅木

ii.         Type of Joints: Joint for Panel 龍鳳榫, Joint for Curved Members 楔釘榫, Joint for Table Support 抱肩榫/夾頭榫/走馬榫

3.      Decorations and Motifs

3. Utensil, Furniture and Interior Settings

1.             The Settings in Night Entertainment of Han Xi-Zai 韓熙載夜宴圖

i.  Settings and Functions

ii. Perceptions and Space in Time

ii.                  From Five Dynasty to Ming

2.             Basic Interior Settings in Ming and Qing

i.   Central Setting in a Main Hall

ii.  One Table Two Chairs; One Table Four Chairs

iii. One Seat, Table and Screen

3.             House of the Spirits of Five Peaks 五峰仙館 in the Lingering Darden 留園

i.  Garden and Courtyard

ii. Settings and Furniture

4.             Yang-Xin-Dian 養心殿of Emperor  Qianlong in the Imperial City

i.  The Central Hall 正殿

ii. San-Xi-Tang 三希堂

iii.       Dong-Nuan Ge 東暖閣

Required Reading List:

Handler, Sarah. Ming Furniture in the Light of Chinese Architecture. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2005.

(Chapter 2)

Recommended Reading List:

Mazurkewich, Karen.  Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing,

2006. (Chapter 1)

Clunas, Craig. Superfluous Things, Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China. Honolulu:

University of Hawaii Press, 2004.

Hung, Wu. The Double Screen-Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting. London: Reaktion Books Limited, 1996. (Chapter II)

Chuang, Quincy. The Chuang Family Bequest of Fine Ming and Qing Furniture in the Shanghai Museum.

Taiwan: The Woods Publishing Company, 1998.

Maudsley, Catherine. Classical and Vernacular Chinese Furniture in the Living Environment. Hong Kong:

Yungmingtang, 1998.

Changjiang, Gu. Selected Chinese Classical Furniture at the Prince Gond’s Palace. Beijing: Wenwu

Publisher, 2008.

李漁著，《閒情偶寄》，上海: 上海古籍出版社，2000. (居室部)

沈復著，《浮生六記》，北京: 人民文學出版社，1999. (閑情記趣 & 浪遊記快)

文震亨著，《長物志圖說》，山東: 山東畫報出版社，2006.

趙廣超著，《一章木椅》，香港: 三聯書店(香港)有限公司，2007.

胡文彥著，《中國家具 鑒定與欣賞》，上海: 上海古籍出版社，1997.

陳從周著，《中國廟堂 江南篇》，香港: 三聯書店(香港)有限公司，1994.

王世襄著，《明式家具珍賞》，香港: 三聯書店(香港)有限公司，1996.

李湞著，《中國傳統建築木作工具》，上海: 同濟大學出版社，2004.

莊貴倫，《莊氏家族捐贈上海博物館明清家具集萃》，香港: 兩木出版社，1998.

羅啟妍著，《中國古典家具與生活環境》，香港: 雍明堂，1998.