Chinese Traditional Aesthetics in Qing Palace Drama*-Take “Story of Yanxi Palace” as an example

The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace

This study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial people carried out polygamy as recorded in both historical and fictional sources. The key to the institutionalization of polygamy had to do with the idea that a ruler did not eng...

The Palace Project

This paper seeks definitions aiding design methodologies for evolving virtual morphologies, by the examination of one such morphology in analogue architecture: The Topkapı Palace. 1 Background The interest that instigated this study lies in a project developed earlier this year, entitled “The Bridge Project” [01], a virtual 3D structure of free associative content derived from the internet, one...

New Palace of Arts in Budapest

The Palace of Arts, the largest cultural facility of the country opened on 14 March 2005 by a large-scale opening ceremony and gala. By now it became evident that a world-class building has been added to the cityscape of the capital. Cleaning contractors are major employers across Europe and form a key industry sector. Business continuity has always been of vital importance to companies. It con...

Depictions of Fruit in the Tiles of Golestān Palace

Golestān Palace is the remnant of the historic citadel of Tehran, which dates back to the Safavid period, and the Zandiyeh and Fatḥ-Ali Shah Qajar. But because of extensive repairs by Nasser al-Din Shah in 1905, most of the buildings in this complex are regarded to be from the Nasseri era. Golestān Palace was the residence of the Qajar kings and the country’s administrative heart whose architec...

The Mannerist Arneri Palace in Korcula