Abstract
The Town of Tekes is a planned community located in Tekes County, Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture, in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Known for its design of the shape of the “Ba Gua” symbols—eight symbols of traditional Chinese culture that represent individually the fundamental elements of the world and together all combinations of changes in the universe, the town is located at a predominantly Muslim area. Technically at the border between East Asia and Central Asia, I choose to discuss the planning and spaces of the Town of Tekes because of its intriguing history, and as an example of the frontier of East Asian urban design because of its close and lively link to Confucian and Taoist ideas, and its multicultural environment. The belief and practice of Yi-ching, Ba Gua, Feng shui and what’s more, the majority of the Muslin community, all point to the multicultural aspect of this Ba Gua city.
Keyword
Ba Gua, Yi-Ching, Confucian, Taoist, Frontier of East Asia, Tekes, Xinjiang, Urban Design, China Studies
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How to cite this paper
Frontier of East Asian Urban Design: The Tekes “Ba Gua City” of Xinjiang
How to cite this paper: Bufan Yang. (2023) Frontier of East Asian Urban Design: The Tekes “Ba Gua City” of Xinjiang. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 7(6), 1175-1177.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.06.025