This pioneering work in Chinese domestic architecture examines for the first time the Chinese house from a cultural perspective. Knapp explores how the typical Chinese home reveals a long folk tradition of craft and symbolism, including the popular practices of fengshui. Extensively illustrated with wood block prints from traditional Chinese homes, original line drawings, and Knapp's own photographs, the book vividly portrays a living tradition of amazing resilience.
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"Excellent....One can learn much about the Chinese house in one reading of the book or can put it in a pocket and take it to China as a guide to the most common type of premodern Chinese construction that can be seen today."--Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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Ronald G. Knapp is at State University of New York.
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This book might be more appropriately filed under 'young readers'. First, it is a small book, hardly more than a paperback. Second, it does not go into any depth about Chinese houses, but gives more of a conversational style overview of culture and history. Illustrations are few and far between. There are no plans, elevations, or serious architectural drawings. Any seventh grader with a report due should be thrilled to find this book. Anyone else will be left wanting. How odd - it is an Oxford University publication.
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COMMON and distinctive elements characterize Chinese building plans whether humble dwellings, palaces, or temples from earliest times to the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern dwellings, roof purlins, tamped earth, roof profiles, rural dwellings, eight trigrams, fired bricks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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COMMON and distinctive elements characterize Chinese building plans whether humble dwellings, palaces, or temples from earliest times to the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern dwellings, roof purlins, tamped earth, roof profiles, rural dwellings, eight trigrams, fired bricks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Han Chinese, Yangzi River, Yellow River New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Ming Tombs (Images of Asia) by Ann Paludan in Front Matter
- Chinese Painting (Images of Asia) by T. C. Lai in Front Matter
- The Birds of Java and Bali (Images of Asia) by Derek Holmes in Front Matter
- The Birds of Sumatra and Kalimantan (Images of Asia) by Derek Holmes in Front Matter
- Mammals of South-East Asia (Images of Asia) by Earl of Cranbrook in Front Matter
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