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Image History of Chinese Architecture
Image History of Chinese Architecture
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This book is a concise history of Chinese architecture written in English by the late Professor Liang Sicheng in his early years. It aims to provide Western readers with an overview of the structural system and the evolution of ancient Chinese architecture through a large number of photos and plates. Popular explanation. Its information comes from a large number of field investigations and surveying records made by the author and his colleagues from the China Construction Society in vast areas of China in the 1930s and 1940s; most of the illustrations and photos in the book were also drawn and produced by the author and his main assistants. taking pictures.
The contents of the book include: the origin of China's architectural structural system; two basic laws of ancient Chinese architecture preserved in the Ming and Qing dynasties; Chinese architecture before the introduction of Buddhism; grotto architecture; and the three development periods of Chinese wooden architecture from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties. ; Chinese pagodas (square, multi-story and dense eaves); other masonry buildings such as mausoleums, etc.
The contents of the book include: the origin of China's architectural structural system; two basic laws of ancient Chinese architecture preserved in the Ming and Qing dynasties; Chinese architecture before the introduction of Buddhism; grotto architecture; and the three development periods of Chinese wooden architecture from the Tang to the Qing Dynasties. ; Chinese pagodas (square, multi-story and dense eaves); other masonry buildings such as mausoleums, etc.
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