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Author Fu, Xinian, author

Title Traditional Chinese architecture : twelve essays / Fu Xinian ; edited by Nancy S. Steinhardt ; translated by Alexandra Harrer
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 390 pages) : illustrations, map
Series The Princeton-China series
Princeton-China series.
Contents Representations of architecture on vessels of the Warring States period -- Reconstruction of Northern dynasties buildings based on relief sculpture and murals in cave-temples at Maijishan -- Early Buddhist architecture in China : monastery plans and statue arrangement -- The development of timber-frame architecture during the two Jins and the Northern and Southern dynasties -- Architectural features of the Northern and Southern dynasties and the Sui and Tang periods in China as reflected in Japanese architecture of the Asuka and Nara periods -- Hanyuan Hall at Daminggong in Tang Chang'an -- The module in Tang architecture -- Imperial architecture of Tang through Ming and its relation to other architecture -- The problem of pillar displacement with respect to the characteristics of Song construction -- Song architecture in South China and its relation to Japanese Great Buddha-style architecture of the Kamakura period -- Northern Song architecture in the painting A thousand li of rivers and mountains by Wang Ximeng -- Typical design features of Ming palaces and altars in Beijing
Notes Translated from the Chinese
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Architecture -- China.
Vernacular architecture -- China.
Form Electronic book
Author Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, editor
Harrer, Alexandra, translator
ISBN 9781400885138 (electronic bk.)
1400885132 (electronic bk.)
Other Titles Essays. Selections. English