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Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays
Fu Xinian
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Description for Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays
Hardback. Editor(s): Steinhardt, Nancy S. Translator(s): Harrer, Alexandra. Series: The Princeton-China Series. Num Pages: 448 pages, 150 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AMC; AMVD; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 190. .
A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architecture Translated by Alexandra Harrer Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert on every type of Chinese architecture from every period through the nineteenth century, and his work is at the cutting edge of the field. Traditional Chinese Architecture gathers together, for the first time in English, twelve seminal essays by Fu Xinian. This wide-ranging book pays special attention to the technical aspects of the building tradition since the first millennium BC, and Fu ... Read more
A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architecture Translated by Alexandra Harrer Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese architecture. He is an expert on every type of Chinese architecture from every period through the nineteenth century, and his work is at the cutting edge of the field. Traditional Chinese Architecture gathers together, for the first time in English, twelve seminal essays by Fu Xinian. This wide-ranging book pays special attention to the technical aspects of the building tradition since the first millennium BC, and Fu ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Princeton-China Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691159997
SKU
V9780691159997
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About Fu Xinian
Fu Xinian is professor of Chinese architecture at Tsinghua University. This is his first full-length book in English. Works that have appeared in Chinese include Architectural History, Chinese Ancient Architecture, and Ancient Chinese Architectural History. Nancy S. Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Chinese Architecture in ... Read more
Reviews for Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays
This volume can be read as an introduction to Chinese architecture, or it can be used as a detailed reference tool. An important resource for anyone interested in architectural history.
Choice One of the most eminent Chinese architectural historians of his times, Fu Xinian's work has decisively shaped how the field has developed since the 1980s. Fu, more than ... Read more
Choice One of the most eminent Chinese architectural historians of his times, Fu Xinian's work has decisively shaped how the field has developed since the 1980s. Fu, more than ... Read more