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Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China´s Architectural Past
Wilma Fairbank
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Description for Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China´s Architectural Past
Paperback. Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of the first historians of Chinese architecture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 31 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AMX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on the traditional culture. In the 1920s, they traveled together to the Beaux Arts universe of Philadelphia, where they both graduated with honors from the architecture department of the University of Pennsylvania. Married in 1928, they returned to their native land and became the first two professors at the newly founded school of architecture in Shenyang's Tung ... Read more
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812220407
SKU
V9780812220407
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About Wilma Fairbank
Wilma Fairbank (1909-2002) is editor of Liang Sicheng's A Pictoral History of Chinese Architecture.
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"Liang and Lin is the story of a romance and of a heroic struggle against great odds. . . . Wilma Fairbank, who is the only person . . . who could have written this story, has created an affecting portrait of the final years of an epoch when Old China faded away and New China took its place."
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