Chinese Architecture

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Yale University Press, Jan 1, 2002 - Architecture - 366 pages
A comprehensive and authoritative study of Chinese architecture from Neolithic times to the late-19th century. Six of China's greatest architectural historians have joined with a leading Western scholar to write this text, a collaborative history of Chinese architecture.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
CHRONOLOGY
7
THE QIN AND HAN DYNASTIES
33
B C E 220 C E HAN DYNASTY
42
THE THREE KINGDOMS WESTERN AND EASTERN JIN
61
THE SUI TANG AND FIVE DYNASTIES
91
THE LIAO SONG XI XIA AND JIN DYNASTIES
135
THE YUAN AND MING DYNASTIES
199
THE QING DYNASTY
261
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Sun Dazhang is senior architect at the Institute of Architectural History and senior research fellow at the China Building Technology Development Center, both in Beijing.

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