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Shenyang: the Manchurian ideal capital city and imperial palace, 1625–43

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2001

Qinghua Guo
Qinghua Guo
Affiliation:
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Abstract

This paper analyses connections between culture and architecture, and between political ideology and capital planning in a region of China. It poses two crucial questions: first, what were the contrasting architectural expressions between imperial palaces in Shenyang? Second, what were the underlying planning concepts of Shenyang, and what urban design models were used to realize that concept? This study shows that the development of Manchurian architecture and planning had been a result of cultural confluence and political governance.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , December 2000 , pp. 344 - 359
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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